Sappho fragments - ‘Sappho: Desire, Love Unsung’ - Tamara Friebel (Preview)

Sappho: Tamara Friebel (Goldlabel Vivienne Westwood)
Rhodes, Greece 2022
Sappho: Desire, Love Unsung (2017-2023) 55'
Awakened Flutters for Violin & Soprano with Electronics
for Klemens Fellner
Excerpt from Film - Sappho: Desire, Love Unsung
I Flutter, Awakened Flutters no.5
Beauty of the Sun, Awakened Flutters no.1
A Voice More Golden than Gold, Awakened Flutters no.3
Icy Water Babbles, Holy Temple no.1
Ambrosia, Awakened Flutters no.2
A Beautiful Child, Awakened Flutters no.4
Sweet as Honey, A Silver Birth no.1
To touch the sky, A Silver Birth no.5
Wearing Fair Blossoms, Crown Thy Earth no.3
Coloured with Saffron, Crown Thy Earth no.2
She illumines earth with silver, A Silver Birth no.2
In thine Eyes, A Silver Birth no.4
Innumerable Hues, A Silver Birth no.3
The Earth, Crown Thy Earth no.1
Text: Sappho Fragments
Premiere 28 May 2023
Alte Schmiede, Vienna
Kaoko Amano (Soprano)
Marianna Oczkowska (Violin)
Tamara Friebel (Voice, Electronics, Film, Composition)
“Awakened Flutters” traces the exquisite poetic Ancient Greek fragments of Sappho for Violin & Soprano Duo with Kaoko Amano, (Soprano) & Marianna Oczkowska (Violin), composed by Tamara Friebel over the last few years.
As the British Museum in London describes, “Although little is known for certain about the Greek poet Sappho's life, her poems gave a voice to female desire that still resonates today.” Her poetry is not just elusive in text, but she has become featured as engravings on ancient clay pots, and she has an enigmatic quality through her representation as an artist.
Trace back to 600 BC. Sappho, was a poet, who performed, she was not just a singer/songwriter of the ancient world, but she was thought to have composed and performed these works for a group of women. She is really the only great female poet of Greek antiquity. She was fondly called the 10th muse, the other 9 were simply goddesses. Sappho seemed to be a woman almost divine in her ability to entrance the audiences, so she was given the honorific title of the tenth muse.
It is known that Sappho favoured the Mixolydian mode. This was thought to be a scale when it starts on E. I began with the first fragment, Beauty of the sun, with a central focus around the resonance created by the violin open strings of A and D, which is aggravated by the 5th note of the Greek Mixolydian tonos(diatonic Gensu) scale, the Bb, and the voice further sitting on the Ab, hovering around this central point. This piece is like a fragment sitting on this Greek Mixolydian mode, hovering gently around its whereabouts. The further fragments follow this principle, and can be traced to different modes and various remnants of melodic counterpoint.
The melodic material weaves between the violin and voice, they are sometimes complementary, other times they offer accompaniment to each other, and sometimes they lose each other, fragments lost in time and space, trying to be sung, here and now.
Sponsors: SKE, Austrian Funding for Art, Culture & Sport (Bundesministerium Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport)
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