Orbis (2024)
for orchestraDuration: c.a. 16'
Premiere: 16. 5. 2023, Sál Martinu, North Czech Philharmonic
The creation of this piece started in Nov of 2023, having some visual sketches of the form; around this time, I realised I work with visual and abstract ideas a lot - for this in particular, it was an undetermined force of nature, from a slowly breaking ice to its disintegration into the ground, turning into the ashes and gradually waking up to a ceremony and then spreading around - and because the material it starts with is encoded in the ending, I decided to opt for the name Orbis. This was simply my visual aid, hence it is not mentioned anywhere and few people know about it.
I remember vividly, after listening to David Lang's "The Passing Measures" on New Year's Eve, I had a sudden realisation of a soundworld I had been searching for this whole time - this sense of a floating, abstract, heavenly world that is completely removed from present and exists in its parallel world. That followed a few other realisations, finding correlations with pieces I wrote in the past. This piece therefore stemmed from an absolute joy I felt after "breaking free".
This work does also not follow any particular form at all - all the layers are transforming, returning and overlapping almost freely, while carefully crafting their placements in time.
Looking back at this piece over a span of one year, I still am happy with how it turned out, given this was my first attempt at an orchestral piece.
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