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Zachàr Selection This playlist contains a selection of recent works which highlight the major areas of my work : [1] the relationship between music, movement and other art-forms, [2] framing devices through the creation of fictive languages and the reference to other forms of popular media in an almost comic fashion, [3] use of music as a metaphor for the expression of certain concepts about reality which can't be expressed in any other way (at least quite as well).

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SONGS OF INCANTATION - 3 short music-theatre films on ritua Here are three short films which are together known as 'Songs of Incantation'; they are taken from a longer film and are indeed intended to be played in consecutive order, but they make as much sense apart in as much as any of work makes 'sense' in any beginning-middle-end narrative (and only then in order to parody the existing traditions). In any case, the music and live action is taken from a composition recorded live in Perth Western Australia in 1991. The first film, Incantory Rite, appears at first to be an archaic enaction of a ritual - the performers who have walked onto stage with candles are draped in black and are holding candles, and when the 'cult-leader' throws a handful of rice the group take it as a cue to begin chanting, which grows in intensity; but the cues change gradually and instruments are one by one revealed - the masks are removed and soon he is conducting the group. The Incantory Rite has taken place. The second film involves the musical evocation; played on a medieval gems horn, the sounds in turn seem to evoke from the past ethereal voices which gradually rises around the quartet. Signs and symbols pointing to the texts, the score and the ritual movements are constantly present to remind the viewer that what they are watching is in fact a reproduction of a production which in itself was an intentional staging of Ancient Greek drama. The second film descends into darkness, and then fire surrounds the performers who have evoked the furies to avenge the long dead for 'ancient violence' (the title of the third film). The third film is a fantasy on ancient greek texts from the Oresteia, specifically the Agamemnon (Aeschylus). The 9 recorded voices speak primarily ancient Greek texts, but for the first time translations can be seen passing by as the work builds towards its climax and the 6 'furies' scream for vengeance, the words are eaten up by the flames which become the set-piece for their utterances. Finally, the lights are raised on the original performers from the opening of film one who have lived through this evocation. The journey is at an end.

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Zachàr Plays Piano [Pianit Zizbiletìt udZaxarit] These are early recordings of piano music composed by various composers and taken from the first SVCD films made. What makes these works interesting is that the reason I play them is because of the unique movements required to be used by the performer; the composer shows his or her awareness of what the piano player is doing, particularly clear in works such as Debussy's Cakewalk 'le petit negre' and most works by Bartok in the Makrokosmos piano books.

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About Dr Zachàr Laskewicz

Composer, performer, theoretician film-maker, designer of graphic art and poet; I've always used the arts as a way to help me grasp reality so that the meaning would make sense. Film is for me a particularly good one because it allows my interest in music, language, performance and theatre to come together in a unique fashion and provide new forms of metanarrative. Please feel free to contact me : zachar@nachtschimmen.eu

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My name is Zachàr Alexander Laskewicz and I was born in Western Australia in 1971 with roots from a mixture of Slavic and other European countries, including Byelorussia, Ireland, the Ukraine and Montenegro. As a child I showed great interest in theatre and music; I studied hard and long and received a Bachelor degree in theatre and drama studies, a first license in experimental composition from the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, a graduate diploma in linguistics, a PhD in the Arts at the University of Ghent, A Post Doctoral Certificate in World Music and finally (and most recently) a Masters of Letters from the University of Central Queensland where I majored in Gender Studies and Queer Theory. Somewhere in between all that I started a Balinese Gamelan Orchestra at the Indonesian Embassy in Brussels, picked up a degree in multimedia management, achieved the Dutch proficiency certificate and went to teach literature and theatre to the Taiwanese (in English) and after that music composition to the Chinese (in Mandarin). Now I'm back at home in Ghent, Belgium, entirely exhausted but still frenetically creative. I hope you enjoy my work at least half as much as I do in making it; it means a great deal to me - it is everything I am.

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Perth

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