James Boznos
Zoon (2020) op.11F for flute and mp3, by OZNO(James Boznos) - Megan Sterling, flute
OZNO: Zoon (2020) op.11F for flute and mp3
Megan Sterling, flute
(OZNO is the pen-name of James Boznos)
www.jamesboznos.com
ZOON, noun {zoh-on}: any individual, or the individuals collectively, produced from a single egg.
In fact, the word can have other meanings: the famous Dutch Flautist, the sound of a drone, or even an anagram of OZNO.
The Zoon Project is s an instrumental prism; a spectral hearing of the same thing, yet refracted through disparate lenses of color, realized through different instrumentations. Similar to Berio’s Sequenzas or Davidovsky’s Synchronisms, this is a collection of solo works, but with the different instrumentalists playing the same piece, adjusted accordingly. There is a version for almost every instrument in the orchestra. The mp3 for each work is slightly different, but in each; layers of material from the solo part are transformed as premonitions/echoes and mixed with drones.
This piece is a continuous interplay of “is it live or Memorex”.
The three movements are played attacca:
I. Rubix - a mathematical drone of permutations like a Rubik’s Cube; a constant shift of the equations.
II. Nisia - a form of music from the Greek Islands, the ‘drone’ of water arriving to the beach in waves; a force of nature that comes in and out of our attention.
III. The Glass - the drone of a mirror reflecting an empty room, of that which is both there and not there.
Zoon and Social Distancing https://youtu.be/6mSIDW4Jc6o, have been my two video projects in response to the performing predicament as imposed by the COVID pandemic. In spite of our profession as a giant musical body known as the philharmonic orchestra, we’ve nevertheless been asked to do considerably more solo projects, performed in isolation through videos, and I therefore thought it appropriate to have some of our players perform and interpret each refraction from the prism, enhance visually through the use of different video filters.
The pieces are dedicated to the first performers, who are mainly virtuosos, colleagues, and friends from the Hong Kong Philharmonic. In the video section of my website, the first instalment of 10 videos of these first performances are available.
#Meg Sterling, flute
https://youtu.be/NHHrYGgAnhY
#Andrew Ling, viola
https://youtu.be/QutxdH2kSpg
#Matthew Lau, vibraphone
https://youtu.be/b8mrPUuqaq8
#Linda Stuckey, piccolo
https://youtu.be/uxO5Vbc3HNQ
#Lorenzo Iosco, bass clarinet
https://youtu.be/tn-uUTkIJ7s
Linda Stuckey, piccolo - #James Boznos, vibraphone
https://youtu.be/5vOXZuuiNBg
#Richard Bamping, cello
https://youtu.be/OZE8Mc-vnWc
#John Schertle, e-flat clarinet
https://youtu.be/Q9HIf-yRXog
#Wang Liang, violin
https://youtu.be/Afdwvm47MmE
#Andrew Simon, clarinet
https://youtu.be/ZGKKWwzMPXc
If you’re interested in a copy of the music, please ask, and I’ll send it to you.
