Synaptic Arpeggiator (2011)
(for five woodwinds)

Synaptic Arpeggiator was commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera. The instrumentation refers to the so-called third instruments of the orchestral apparatus, for which there is hardly any chamber music literature. The idea of the piece is based on the arpeggiator, one of the most basic functions of the synthesizers of the 1980s, in which partials of an overtone series are sent as midi signals in certain rhythmic structures over several octaves. In Synaptic Arpeggiator, this process creates interfaces, cell connections and elementary musical synapses that interact with each other to form larger sound structures, like a matrix. A musically growing organism that wanders homogeneously through several sound spectra and oscillates between sound and noise, finally allowing the increasingly defused sound to end completely in noise through white noise and air effects. 

Minas Borboudakis, 2011