Panic
Panic stands on the border between “serious” electro-acoustic music and its exaggeration.
It reflects the way of living in today’s metropolis with its rush hours, lack of time and
noise pollution, its everyday stress and loneliness. The result – panic.
The initial material of Panic is the filtered beginning of my Night Music for large
ensemble. The first two bars repeat throughout the piece, each time transformed through
different filters and plug-ins, disappearing in the end, leaving pulsating sine waves as a
shadow. The main sources of the piece are graphic patterns used as filters for the
Metasynth software, transforming graphic imagesinto sound objects and filters.
Melancholy
The title reflects the mood of the piece; it is a lyric composition based on the prerecorded voice of Judith Caplan (U.K., soprano). The voice samples were transformed in
different ways. Certain partials of words were extracted to create new spoken letters and
vowels, as well as rich textures (or “fields’) of voices.
The two sung notes, E and D-sharp, are repeated throughout the piece. These are the
“central interval” of Melancholy (the Major seventh), unstable by itself, but not
dissonant. The interchange of these two notes creates a balancing effect, associated with a
children’s “seesaw.”

Panic
Panic stands on the border between “serious” electro-acoustic music and its exaggeration.
It reflects the way of living in today’s metropolis with its rush hours, lack of time