Subvoice

 

”Sub voice” & ”Lunch music”, two new releases of Yannis Kyriakides on the label Unsounds

”Sub voice” contains 9 compositions relative to the relation in between speech, text, instrumental music and computer sounds. Nine experimental pieces which bring us in hallucinating landscapes similar as deep soft dreams.

”… the underlying idea is to explore what happens when material that has a clear semantic form, wether communicated in text or speech, is translated into the musical structure…”  YK

 "Lunch Music" by composer Yannis Kyriakides is a set of pieces for voices, percussion and live electronics, inspired by the 1959 book "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs.

The concept of the music revolves around the idea of the polyphony of voices found in "Naked Lunch".

 

YK - a portrait by Sara Morris

Yannis Kyriakides reaches the composition with an intellectual approach and a formal construction, but the results are not deprive of deep emotion. These two new CDs, ”Subvoice” & ”Lunch music”  prove it again.

”…The ‘perceptual’ in time based arts I define by how we perceive ourselves inside the music. The passing of time. How the space around us is changed by the music we hear. How we reflect on things that have happened a second before or an hour before. How the moment or the ‘now’ is expressed and perceived in relation to the duration that is set up in the music…” YK - 2003

 "...Lunch Music joue avec les sens et l’espace, contorsionnant le temps et les mélodies pour en élaborer un matériau musical aux images fortes et à la beauté radieuse, ensorcelant chaque sillon de leur impossibilité à s’extraire de la folie et des substances hallucinogènes auxquelles fait allusion Le Festin Nu (le roman) ..."   Roland Toress

"...for most of his (YK) work, he encodes the countless fruits of oral expression in immaculate contrapuntal designs. Not just as mere colors; rather, as transformed nuclei of primordial significance containing the keys to acknowledge a subtler level of comprehension..." 
 Massimo Ricci - january 2017

 Complete review by Massimo Ricci here