tolga yayalar

Archaeologies (of forsaken histories) (2018)

for chamber orchestra

 

commissioned by Ensemble QuLacoza, Nagoya

 

"The piece belongs to a series of works where familiar musical objects undergo disintegration much like physical objects deteriorate, degrade and decay over time.This process of ageing adds distinct qualities and aesthetic value even to most ordinary objects. In the piece these ordinary objects are revealed after extensive scrapping and excavating, albeit in a disintegrated from.”