Anagwgh · Anagoge
²to en sautw Jeion anage epi to prwtogonon Jewn²
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The piece was comissioned by the festival “Conversatorium“ in Legnica, and was first performed there in 1995. I used an indian rubbed string intrument – sarangi – together with the big organ of the Evangelic church in Legnica and a percussion (one player). The spatial disposition requires the sarangi player to play in the frontal part of a church, in the front of public, the organ and percussion are playing from behind. This recording was made during a concert, and for technical reasons it is not good, the microphones were placed near the organ so the sarangi sound is hardly audible. The title is a notion taken from neoplatonic philosophy. It means the way up, going up in spiritual development. The motto means: try to raise what is divine in you to that, what is divine in the Universe – the sentence said by Plotin on his death bed.
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