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phantasmagloria · 7 months

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Irregular Frequencies 028: Greek Composers 1930-2023

An episode showcasing some of the finest pioneering composers and bands from Greece, from the 1930s until now.

An episode showcasing some of the finest pioneering composers and bands from Greece, from the 1930s until now. From classical versions of traditional dances and reflections on ancient myths to futuristic synthesisers, ska and post-punk and new age jazz. Featuring Nikos Skalkottas, Lena Plantonos, Stavros Logaridis, Vasilis Fotou, Danae Stefanou, Kostadis and more. Listen below; if the player…

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#greek #greek composers #greek electronic #greek experimental #greek mixtape #greek new age #greek new wave #Storm Stereo

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gone2soon-rip · 2 years

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VANGELIS (aka EVANGELOS PAPATHANASSIOU 1943-Died May 17th 2022,at 79.Heart failure). Greek musician, composer, songwriter and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music.He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangelis

#Vangelis #Greek Musicians #Greek Composers #Composers #Musicians #Chariots of Fire #Blade Runner #Notable Deaths in May 2022 #Notable Deaths in 2022

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callisteios · 9 months

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Hey you seem to know a lot more about this than I do so I’m hoping you can help. Was Homer actually real? I’ve heard contrasting stories and I know what my emotional attachments would like to be the truth but I don’t actually know what the scholarly consensus is. Additionally if he was real, did he/they/whomever write more beyond the Iliad and the Odyssey? Trying to expand my Greek epics beyond the two big ones (although to be clear, I love them both). Thanks for any help you can give!

woahh hey anon. love that you've come to me for this. the person my greek lit prof did not love because i would only read the texts and none of the context...

this is not a question that has a yes/no answer unfortunately. from what i remember (when i studied this like 6 years ago??) sure (!?!?!) is the simplest answer. because long before the epics were written down (8th/7th cent BCE) they were oral poems for possibly many hundreds of years.

the yes scenario:

imagine for a moment that you're a guy homer and it's the 11th century BCE. you compose 2 (or more) really cool epic poems. they're so good that other bards learn them and they're repeated long after your death. all the way until writing is invented and everyone is like. my gods, this will be perfect to finally immortalise homer's poems.

In this scenario there's problems, particularly; are we really certain that the words written down in the 8th century are the exact same ones uttered by a guy generations earlier?

that's not a hypothetical we're quite sure it's a no. there were different versions floating around in antiquity, i believe (though may be wrong) that the versions of the iliad and odyssey we have today were codified in athens somtime in the 6th (?????) century.

so even in the 'yes, homer is a completely real guy who wrote 2+ poems, the version that we have today is not the work of one man, but countless communities and people who have all added and changed the stories to fit meter, culture, and current events.

The no scenario is simpler:

homer didn't write the original epics. maybe he's just the guy who wrote them down. maybe a disciple of homer did. maybe he wrote one but not the other. maybe homer was a woman. maybe homer never existed but by spending millenia attributing the poems to him we've made a god and homer is real but only because we believe. maybe a million things.

I'm really sorry that my answer is essentially ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but it is what is. pick the answer you like the most, argue it to the death with everyone you know. that's the classics way

As for other homeric works,

you're in more luck. i must confess to not be super well versed in the entire homeric cycle or the homeric hymns. I don't believe any of these works are actually attributed to homer but they're all written about similar topics/in the same style.

most are lost i'm p sure which is super sad, i have however read the homeric hymns to demeter and hermes, i thought they were super fun. love demeter nearly damning humanity to eternal winter, love hermes being born and immidiately deciding to cause problems.

if anyone more knowledgable than i wants to let me know if any of that was horribly wrong, do let me know!

#ask #anon #again sorry for the utter centrism of that answer but anyone who tells you we know anything for certain about homer is lying #i think i like to believe that homer is the poet who maybe didn't compose the epics but rather the guy made them into their best versions #homer #the iliad #the odyssey #OMG i nearly didn't post without saying #READ THE AENEID #it's not greek #it's not homeric #it might not even be as good as either of the originals (it is to me)#but it's massively inspired by them and a roman version which is a fun concept which is executed very well imo

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maganne-bonete · 11 months

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Been a while since I've listened to EPIC: the musical again and although I'm aware how the narrative of the adaptation is made like that for the purpose of entertainment and to get the message of cruelty and ruthlessness across, but the beginning of the musical having Odysseus be bothered with the cruelty of war, loosing his friends, and the morality of it all as if 10 years of the Illiad didn't happen is just kinda funny and takes me out of my immersion.

#epic the musical #epic the troy saga #epic the cyclops saga #I'm only sticking with those two for the meantime although I've heard of the other songs before #I'm just scared that I might get burned out before the whole musical gets finished #so yeah #also don't get me wrong I still really like the songs #jorge rivera-herrans is a talented composer and song writer and you could see all the passion put in every aong he makes #I just could not not think about the mycenaean greeks or the sea people in relation to this #tbf greek history and literature isn't really my specialty but again I just get taken out of my immersion from time to time #but I guess this is just gonna be one of the many adaptation out there #marge's stuff

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ceaseless-watchers-special-girl · 2 months

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you ever read a translation of sappho 31 you did when you were 16 and had a crush on a straight girl and go wow. i cannot show this to ANYONE. why does it sound so personal for the love of god

#i know her poetry is meant to be personal but JESUS CHRIST #i cannot believe i let my greek teacher read that #the YEARNING i think sappho's spirit possessed me while i composed it #sappho #ancient greece #sapphic poetry

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soundrooms · 2 years

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V A N G E L I S | 🕊

➜ Blade Runner Main Theme

➜ Miami Vice Theme (actually called Crockett’s Theme by Jan Hammer)

➜ Conquest of Paradise

➜ Chariots of Fire

#vangelis #studio #recording studio #blade runner #composer #aphrodite’s child #greek #synths #synth #synthesizer #analog synth #synth wizard #rest in paradise

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jirlz · 3 months

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A little ..... obsessed? with composer, Kian Ravaei. "Family Photos is a musical collage of personally significant places from my childhood. The first movement, “At the Carnival,” takes inspiration from the whimsy and spectacle of my neighborhood carnival. “On the Tehran Tower,” the second movement, incorporates elements of Iranian classical music, inspired by my childhood trips to visit family in Tehran. The third and final movement, “In Arcadia,” represents not only my hometown in the suburbs of Los Angeles, but also the Arcadia of Ancient Greek mythology, a heaven on Earth." Like, literally every movement gets better than the last somehow?!??! In a totally different way?!?! And I don't even like classical music that much? ALSO UHM HELLO?? The Eastern influence in that second movement is SO GOOD .

And then I google him, and he's like, in college?? like WHAT? I am not gatekeeping this anymore

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specialagentartemis · 1 year

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The problem if I want to write an epic poem about Polites that is kicking around my brain is that based on the way we form Ancient Greek Epic names by adapting the genitive form of the name of the topic it’s about (Troy = Ilias -> Iliad; Odysseus -> Odyssey; Aeneas -> Aeneid) then logically the name for an epic about Polites would be either the Polito, which sounds stupid, or the Polity, which I couldn’t take seriously because as I am both an archaeologist and a Murderbot fan “polity” is just straight up a regular word I use almost every day

#Anyway I’d actually probably go for ‘Politeia’ á la ‘Oresteia’#it's also a word but a much less common one #and just assume no one who would read my Odyssey fanfiction has also read Plato's Republic in the original Greek #Polites why must you have a name that just means Some Guy #Also apparently ‘Odyssey’ does not come from the genitive or dative form of ‘Odysseus’ it comes from an English-ization of ‘Odysseia’#Interesting #I mean the other problem if I want to write an epic poem is that so far it's 90% vibes 10% composing the wikipedia summary in my head #including subheadings like 'Portrayal of xenia' and 'Relationship between Polites and Odysseus'#maybe instead of writing it I'll just write a not!fic in the form of a wikipedia page about this nonexistent epic

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k1rishiki · 6 months

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my naming scheme for the resurrectionists causes me undue stress a lot of the time but when it works it Works

#edgar mortis is obv edgar allen poe + latin word for death. and his surname plays off the fact that there are four other resurrection men #only identified by their surnames which are pallor livor rigor and algor. rigor mortis should be easy to clock but the rest are all stages #of death as well when you attach -mortis to the end of them. which cements edgar's identity as a resurrection man even when he's farrr too #consumed by morana's world of magic and mystery to be actively working.#morana faust is a slavic death goddess + faust. the most famous necromancer in all of fiction. once again her surname cements her identity #as a necromancer specifically even when she gets swept away by unrelated magical happenings #nine and shi aren't their real names but their identification numbers are 9444999 and 4999444. 9 and 4 are both associated with death and #each of their numbers are the other's but reversed. also nine was a classical composer in life and there's a superstition that classical #composers will not live to write their 9th symphony (he sure as hell didn't lol) so it's fitting that he's the one who ended up with the #nickname. abberline isn't his real name either so he doesn't count. valdís has ancient norse for 'death' (val) + 'dis' (goddess) despite th #name not actually being used for any actual death goddess and her surname toth is likely derived from a medieval german word for death #her name isn't glaringly out of place with the rest of the cast but doesn't immediately let you catch on to her whole deal #which is good bc valdís is meant to sort of blend into the backround of reader's minds until The Reveal.#mara is a minor hindu goddess of death and her surname grave is. well. self explanatory. i tried to give the more non-magical side of londo #more straightforward names to contrast with some of the others and obv her dad was created before her and dr grave seemed like a good name #for someone who only popped up in the story while he was hiring professional grave robbers (now he pawns that task off on mara lol)#ereshkigal kore is just queen of the underworld + queen of the underworld but def has a very grandiose feel which is good bc that's #absolutely the vibes she should be giving off. all her servants' names boil down to figures associated with the greek + mesopotamian #underworlds. mainly attendants of aforementioned goddesses. which fits bc they all serve her #but i'd like to give special consideration to the maid trio here bc they're a set of triplets. and their last name is cerberus.#which famously had 3 heads. and the older two feature a similar naming scheme as persephone + eurydice (they even both end in the same e #sound) but the youngest's name is aisha which means 'living' or 'alive'. and obv her departure from the naming scheme makes her more easily #differentiated from her sisters + more memorable in the long run which is good bc she's the most important maid but it also gives me room t #have a 'my name means alive but she's named for the queen of the underworld so i'm willing to not live up to my name if it means being #closer to her' moment w a shitton of lilies in frame in case it isn't clear to anyone what's going on ('her' means eresh not persephone btw #and then there's dysmas. the patron saint of undertakers. which fits bc catholic. and sanson. as in the executioner. for a character heavil #inspired by the nasuverse's church executioners like kirei and ciel #rosette comes from the rosette nebula which looks like a skull. hayden is from one of my kids at work who said that next time i wrote a #murderer into something i had to name them after her so. here you go hayden. you get to be the cannibalistic child. (the topic came up when #i had to make a murder mystery for class so i stole the names from my kids and i told the ones whose names i used abt it later and she was

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phantasmagloria · 10 months

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Storm Stereo #91: Echoing Waves: Greek Experimental Music 1960-2021

Avant garde, electroacoustic and experimental works from Greek composers, 1960-2021.

Avant garde, electroacoustic and experimental works from Greek composers, 1960-2021. A show developed in light of the first Greek retrospective exhibition about the great composer and polymath Iannis Xenakis at The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST). We start off with the mysterious, futuristic synth-scapes of 2 Katara, a group formed in Athens in 1978 by George Theodorakis and…

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brandonjnelson · 6 months

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Consortium and Commissions, Oh My!

On the heels of finishing up two pieces for concert band, I have received funding from a consortium of five excellent tubists to write a piece for unaccompanied tuba. It will be based on the mystical, sometimes elusive fragments of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. I also just received a commission from the University of Texas at Tyler for a trumpet and piano piece, with the possibility of a…

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yourdailyqueer · 2 years

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Dimitri Mitropoulos (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 1 March 1896

RIP: 2 November 1960

Ethnicity: White - Greek

Occupation: Conductor, musician, composer

#Dimitri Mitropoulos #lgbt history #gay history #lgbt people #lgbtq #male #gay #1896 #rip #historical #white #greek #conductor #musician #composer

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lesser-known-composers · 10 months

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Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949): Concertino per oboe e pianoforte (1939) --

Alexeï Ogrintchouk, oboe; Nikolaos Samaltanos, pianoforte --

I. Allegro giocoso II. Pastorale: Andante tranquillo III. Rondo: Allegro vivo

#Nikos Skalkottas #greek composer #Youtube

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sivavakkiyar · 1 year

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Teles, Cynic philosopher

#Diogenes #Teles #cynic philosophy #the present day composer refuses to die etc #yeah this argument is weird don’t care running with it #the ancient greeks dumb as they were never studied stanislavsky. pff read theory scrubs

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ineffable-gallimaufry · 1 year

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*points to what is clearly just fanfiction at this point* and this is the novelization of the tv show sonic voyage of which i have not made for reasons untold

#listen. drawing is hard. animating is hard. voicing is hard. composing is hard. learning ancient greek is hard.#sonic voyage

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sjwallin · 2 years

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I’ve never done a piece quite like this before… Sort of a riff on Terry Riley’s “In C”, I’ve created a “Sonic Word Cloud” #Parode for my #urbanopera ! (Update, I need to fix the score to say “any tempo”—not different rhythms… derp!)

Plus, I created a little notation froggy for you 😝

#aleatory #greek theatre #music notation #wip #woman composer #concert composer #urban opera #opera #chambermusic #parode #word cloud

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