About the Piece

 

AVAZ is particularly written for Hezarfen Ensemble in order to be performed at Bilkent Composition Academy in 2017. The title means “one’s loudest, strongest voice” , and etymologically comes from Farsi. Before I started to compose this piece, I had the state of someone’s yelling loudly, piercingly in my mind. I use this state as a morphological connection for the piece. So, there is certainly not an intention of portraying a situation or story. I strongly believe that every piece creates its unique temporal identity and listeners perceive it subjectively. I tried to preserve that identity and the energy through the piece. 

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After the performance of Hezarfen Ensemble, the piece is selected to be part of World New Music Days, ISCM 2018 at 2018. 

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In order to explain the piece itself and the composition process, transcription of the interview from BCA-17 is written below. 

 

-intentions/concept of your piece?

-I tried to create and organise very intense gestures and zones. I use the state of someone’s yelling loudly, piercingly as a morphological source to create the shape of the overall texture.   

 

-Would you like to talk about your creative process?

-I usually think the overall identity of the composition at first. When I feel that unique , intense materials are beginning to arise, I start to define, understand, identify them in a deep manner in order to form dynamic organisms. And the process goes on by creating the relationships between these organisms to design, to organise the piece.

 

-Do draw inspiration from extra-musical sources? If so, what and how?

-Yes definitely, I do. These sources can be diverse. It can just be an object, a situation, an article,a philosophical essay anything in which I can find a musical connection for my compositions.

 

What are the greatest difficulties you face as a composer? How do you overcome them? Do you find them fruitful?

-The most challenging thing is time management to finish the piece. I always try to find a good balance between pre compositional process, writing process and engraving and editing process. The most beneficial thing is that while trying to find this balance I usually come up with creative solutions. 

 

-What was your experience with Hezarfen Ensemble? What do you think you can cherish from this experience? 

-They easily understood my intentions and they adopted the piece in a short time. Thus, we had plenty of time to discuss the details. Furthermore they can suggest creative solutions for some problems. After this experience with Hezarfen Ensemble, I realised that the piece does not finish when I put the double barline. Because during the rehearsals, as a result of useful collaboration, I still continue to change, to balance the composition.