Product Description
In
the second century AD, Artemidoro de Daldis (135-200), a very cultured man who
had traveled a lot, contemporary of Emperor Marco Aurelio, wrote in Ephesus his
work Symbolism of Dreams (Oneirocritica). In it he tried to create a systematic
theory for the interpretation of dreams, based on experience. Artemidoro
claimed that he had written his work in five volumes by express order of the
god Apollo, who had appeared several times in his dreams. In his fascinating
book he distinguishes five kinds of dreams: Dream, Vision, Oracle, Appearance
and Fantasy. Artemidoros book, Op. 63, is a work
for guitar in five movements, which take their titles as the kinds of dreams
mentioned above: Dream, Vision, Oracle, Appearance and Fantasy. It is an
extensive composition, 19 minutes long, and with a great variety of
compositional and instrumental techniques: the performer, who is asked for a
lot of versatility and imagination, has to play glissandi, harmonics,
pizzicati, bells, loops, metric modulations, ordinary and muted strokes,
microtones, distortions, various kinds of bumps in the box, etc. The five
movements share a special scordature and the same melodic, harmonic and
rhythmic material, which is transformed according to the dreamlike atmosphere
of the piece, but always maintaining each of the structural elements a
recognizable identity. The multiple presences of these essential identities
throughout the work articulate the complex form of the Book. I finished the
composition of The Book of Artemidoro on April 24, 2006. The work is dedicated
to guitarist José Guerola, who premiered it at the Vivanco Palace in Catarroja
(Spain), on May 5, 2006.
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