Medéa granulaire (2010)
(for orchestra)

medéa granulaire
for orchestra (2010)

Anger and despair. These words could best describe the emotional world of a wounded woman.

As one of the most important and still most relevant female figures in Greek mythology, Medea's psychological profile can best be compared to a compositional technique (granular synthesis).

Like individual compositional elements, her outbursts of rage, flashback moments, fear, and crying are used in the score. The angry beginning, stigmatized by an orchestral tutti, transforms in the course of the work into a two-dimensional sound installation in which Medea discovers her innermost, most torn and loneliest sides. Fragmented viola and harp lines lead the music and thus Medea's inner world to its own implosion.

An emptying (psychological) space. A psychogram whose curves become a straight line.
An inner death.
In short: the woman (or the music...) who turns from a volcano into a lonely living wreck.

Minas Borboudakis
Summer 2010
Translation by Edition Peters