2016-17
for an ensemble of five (each doubling)
and electronics
oboe | English horn, trombone | bass trombone, viola | violin, cello | electric cello (optional),
percussion: vibraphone | marimba, crash | cymbals, tom toms | a Chinese drum.
mixing: ︎Henry Birdsey
editing, initial mix: Esin Gunduz
Esin Gunduz _ Lights on Inanna: Embodying Text and Transcribing for Instruments
presentation for Society of Bible Literature Conference - 2021 San Antonio, TX.
Lights on Inanna is based on the texts of
three ancient Sumerian tablets
that were inscribed for their Goddess Inanna
and I read these texts as both the humanity’s
cultural/psychological projections on women and
the multiplicity within female soul.
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Throughout my compositional process,
I performed, recorded, and analyzed
selected phrases from these tablets.
I studied the semantics, spectra, and the sensory experiences
that they bring about and molded this data into instrumentation and orchestration.
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My works generally explore
the union and opposition of energies
which Lights on Inanna points to
by acknowledging three -still present- cultural/psychological projections on women.
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On three selected Sumerian tablets,
the Sumerians relate to their Goddess Inanna as the:
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…an-zà-śè maḫ-àm……as lofty as the horizon…
- destructive power: ︎[04:56]…ku-ku za-lag ge-eş ĝar……to turn darkness into light…
- as “one of” them: ︎[10:42]…ur-re ca-mu-u-hul-le……to make you joyous…
︎3rd mov. premiere
Ensemble Evolution, Banff Centre For the Arts, July 2019, AB Canada
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︎Digital premiere
12th Annual Festival of New Music, Marshall University, February 2021, WV, Usa
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© 2017 Esin Gunduz
Composer | Vocal performer
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Composer | Vocal performer