KRYPTA [CRYPT] [2021] c. 14'00''
violin, piano, bass clarinet and percussion (vib, t-tam)
Commissioned by Kwartludium
Premiere: 29 October 2022 I Synthesizer of Arts Festival NOMUS - The New Art Museum, Gdansk, Poland Ensemble Kwartludium Dagna Sadkowska – violin Michał Górczyński – bass clarinet Piotr Nowicki – piano Paweł Nowicki – vibraphone and percussion
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Krypta (Crypt in English), simply put, is a vault or small space used to house dead bodies, generally in the underground in some capacity. The world’s first know crypts were used in Italy, Greece, and South Africa to house the bodies of saints, priests, martyrs, and other ancient Christians. In fact, Machajdik's Krypta has no religious visions. The main idea when composing the piece was to wrap the sound in its own essence in a subtly hypnotic way. In Krypta, the composer uses very simple materials and a simple way of expression, thus trying to create a vibrant and challenging sound palette.
Krypta is dedicated with thanks to Kwartludium. |
This work was created with support from public sources in the form of a scholarship from the Slovak Arts Council
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