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DARIA JABLONSKA (PL) So many things to write about… Silence and space; discovering elements of music and giving musical shapes to objects and natural phenomena; helping moving pictures to tell stories with music and sound; exploring the sound of ethnic, especially Oriental, instruments; and yet electronic and computer music, which enables transforming and processing sounds without limits. Well, only imagination can be a limit there… Silence is essential for me, as only silence can give meaning to the sound. I use long pauses to play with a sense of time and audience’s perception. I let my sounds fade out freely. Then they reveal another sound component, which interests me. That is space, space for the sound to swell, grow and disappear. However, for me space also means leaving the artists some freedom to improvise. Discovering elements of music themselves, that is another challenge! That is why I still look for unique chords and harmony, subtle musical colours and shades, disturbing and vibrating rhythms, I explore instrumental techniques. I am not afraid of using neither my own atonal clusters nor major-minor structures. On the other hand, these are often nature, science, literature and philosophy that influence me. I do not desire to explain words, facts and events. I only try to close my personal experiences and thoughts in a shape of a composition. What is more, I especially enjoy developing projects which connect music, dance, theater, film and visual arts. Interaction between instruments and electronic layer, combining instrumental sounds with processed sounds are my inspiration. Simultaneously, the idea of getting extraordinary, almost “electronic” sound only with instruments, their specific articulation, timbre, texture, etc. fascinates me. And there are still all these ethnic instruments, which add yet more colours to the well-known orchestral palette. I hope someday I will be able to combine all these aspects, ideas, inspirations, all these opposites in one. I am still looking forward to exploring these ways. DARIA JABLONSKA, born on 27th December 1976, studied composition with Jan Astriab (master’s degree in 2001) and theory of music with Lidia Zielinska (master’s degree in 2002) at the Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland. In 1999 she received a scholarship with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Also she studied ethnolinguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In 2006 she graduated from the Film and Television Production Managers Department at the National Film, Television and Theater School in Lodz, Poland. Her awards include First Prize at 43rd Tadeusz Baird Competition For Young Composers (2001, for “Images of Broken Light”), an honourable mention at Karol Szymanowski Composition Competition (2003, for “Incarnations of Dream”), an honourable mention at 47th Tadeusz Baird Competition For Young Composers (2006, for “Euclase”). In 2004 “Visions of Light” for orchestra was a work recommended by the jury at the 1st International Uuno Klami Composition Competition in Finland. Daria Jablonska’s works have been performed at numerous concerts in Poland, including major Polish festivals of contemporary music - Audio Art in Cracow, Musica Polonica Nova in Wroclaw, the Poznan Musical Spring and Musica Moderna in Lodz - and worldwide at Festival Synthese in Bourges, Festival Forfest Kromeriz in Czech Republic, Musica Contemporanea Chilena in Santiago de Chile, Musicahora in La Serena, Chile. She has also been involved in organizing contemporary music events, Warsaw Autumn among others, as well as in publishing articles and giving papers on 20th century ballet, music expressionism, film music and sound designing. She also creates film music. As a composer, she takes part in “30 Minutes Programme” which supports debutants in the film trade. At present, Daria Jablonska composes music and designs sound for students’ short films at the National Film, Television and Theater School in Lodz. She also works as a teacher of piano improvisation and theoretical subjects at secondary music school. Selected works: “Variations” for piano (1996), “Udnie or the dance”, inspired by Francis Picabia’s painting “Udnie”, for clarinet, cello and vibraphone (1997), “Une saison en enfer”, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s prose, for string quartet (1998), “Canción para una arpa” for harp, percussion and choir (1998), “Two Songs to Charles Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal” for mezzo-soprano and piano (1999), “Thoughts Meander” for tape (2000), “The Picture”, ballet for chamber orchestra, tape and slide show (2001), “Images of Broken Light” for tape (2001), “Incarnations of Dream” for harp, vibraphone and tape (2003), “Visions of Light” for orchestra (2003), “Of Crystal” for piano, harp, 12-string guitar, double bass and metal percussion instruments (2004), “Incarnations of Dream II” for tape and violin improvisation [together with Anna Zielinska, the violinist] (2004), “The Snow Queen” for tape (2005), “Ignis fatuus” concerto for harp and orchestra (2005), “Euclase” for piano, percussion and tape (2005), “Sad are the Eyes of this Bird” for tape (2007), “Sea Inside” for chamber ensemble (2007). See also Interview. Mail to: Daria Jablonska. |
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