According to Eka Chabashvili (CV), The
Georgian Composers Live at the Cross of Space and Time and really,
her creation is full of European
and non-European cultural musical traditions.
E. Chabashvili One of the most important and interesting
representatives of Georgian composition school of 90s.
Her music is
performed in different countries. She researches in the field of musical genetics
and micro acoustics.
She is also the author of the new Multi-topophonic Composition Technique and
atomic-nuclear musical system.
She was invited for holding Author
Talk in NYU, Harvard and Tufts university.
E.
Chabashvili's main compositions are: piano piece Panorama was
performed on the Orleans International Pianists
competition of XX century music by Nino
Jvania who became laureate of competition, ballets "Radiance"
and "Dancing with Death",
opera/exhibition
"Wandering Wishes" after
Kafka's novellas, musical novel "The
Sound and the Fury" for holographic theatre,
"Polyphonic Verses" was played on the ICE FEST 2004 (USA), "Frescos" was performed in Seattle on the
Festival Icebreaker: III The Caucasus:
"Chorale" for
choir (awarded with MDR-Rundfunkchores
Leipzig prize in Germany),
"Galobani sinanulisani"
microotatoria
for organ
was performed
on the Hagenbeer-Schnitger organ in the Grote Sint Laurens church in Alkmaar in 2006
by organists Pieter van Dijk and
Frank van Wijk, plays for orchestra "Proverbs", "Somnus", "Apocalypse", symphonic
trilogy "Bodies",
"Mosaic", musical novellas "Seven Wonders of World", multimedia "Idea of God - Spheres" was performed
in France Perigueux, etc.
Uses the new techniques of XX century professional
academic music, such as random structure, sonorous, and parts of polystylistic
forms. She pays attention not how to develop the
musical materials in time, but to its improvisational-variation development in
space.
Therefore was invited in in Ecole Britten
and Higher Institution of Music in Perigueux (France) for giving lecrutes about
improvisation in music and dance. In her works you come across the meditative dramaturgy
and static types of composition.
She develops
the musical materials inside of different psycho-times. Her music's rich colour
sounding palette very often evokes visual
associations,
as a result of the connection between her musical thinking and visual sources.
That's why, Eka
often speaks about her wish to paint music and, vice versa, to make a painting
heard in music.
Karlhainz Stockhausen describs her
creation like this:
"In her works she creates timbre-theatrical pieces,
compositions.
Often,
coming from the verbal music she creates rhythmic-melodic
intonation
compositions of oratory-artistic nature. The composition
technique
of Eka is quite unique and interesting Her music is intuitively
and
her scores are based on the principle- repeat and vary."
Marika Nadareishvili
PH.D.
Musicology,
Tbilisi State
Conservatoire
