Meditative Ritual - TRIETHNÉS International Music Festival

DESCRIPTION

The versatile soloist Panagiotis Ziavras performs ritualistic solo works by Pierluigi Billone, Mazyar Kashian, and Salvatore Sciarrino, using Tibetan bowls, bells, and stones collected from Mikri Prespa, drawing inspiration from two monastic landmarks of the Prespa Lakes. Pierluigi Billone composed a prayer, a deeply personal meditative experience, conceived to be presented in front of an audience and to take on a contemplative dimension. Mani Gonxha, a work that pays tribute to the Albanian roots of the composer and of Mother Teresa, is presented in resonant spaces that connect the performer with his instruments and the listener with their inner vibrations.

In Appendice alla perfezione, Salvatore Sciarrino employs twelve bells of varying sizes, freely chosen by the performer. Here, Panagiotis Ziavras gathers his bells from animals of the Prespa region and from old Ottoman markets. Finally, Mazyar Kashian’s Rondo de facto is based on the acoustic effects produced by the almost continuous bouncing of small stone hammers on the smooth stones of the lake.

In a parallel action, visual performance artist Myrgon (Grigoris Myrgiotis) creates a performative allegory using stone, soil, grass, branches, mud from the nearby Mikri Prespa, and his own body. This body vibrates with the sound produced, changing and evolving alongside it. Creation and destruction, oblivion and memory are reflected in the open environment around him. Working only with found materials and wind-blown remnants, Myrgon almost instinctively gives visual form to the meditative ritual, projecting onto a reconfigured self the memories of a forgotten yet still living lake.