Solo
programme
Dan Dlouhý has
also solo performances where he plays compositions written by leading
czech and foreign authors. He also performs his own solo compositions
in
which he uses special musical instruments on the
frontier of fine arts made by him.
CONVERGENCE Duo
 
The duo was formed by Dan Dlouhý and violinist Lenka
Župková in 1993, as a smaller-scale and more theatrical version of the DAMA DAMA
ensemble. Here again the selection and ordering of the compositions is important not only
from the point of view of musical quality and parameters, but also that of their
expressive and semantic content, so that the to-and-fro of convergence between the duo's
two protagonists, with their differing means of expression, becomes the axis of the entire
program.
The duo makes use not only of the two players' considerable technical abilities, which
come from their formal training in music, but also of modern musical techniques
(electronic musical instruments, half-playback), a number of special instruments devised
by Dan Dlouhý, and elements of theater (make-up, masks, costumes, lighting, etc.)
realized in collaboration with K. Blahová and M. Popelká, two graduates in stage design
from Brno's JAMU Music Academy.
CONVERGENCE has made successful appearances in a number of European countries, including
Germany, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands. The duo presented the planetary oratorio
"Adam and Eve" during the 1994 New Music Exposition in Brno. Its repertoire
includes a number of works written especially for it by leading Czech composers, as well
as by Dan Dlouhý himself.
 
Dan Dlouhý's selected works
INSTRUMENTAL WORKS FOR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Claves for five percussionists (1987);
00:05:19, CR, TV, CD Pehy PY 00052 AAD CD 209.00
ADAI for piano and three percussionists (joint project with Adam
Kubíček and Ivo Medek) (1987); 00:10:00, HR, CR, TV, CD Pehy PY 00052 AAD CD 209.00
Awakening for percussion solo (1990); 00:12:26, HR, CD Pehy PY 00052 AAD
CD 209.00
Axis Axis, Bubo Bubo and Marmota Marmota Dream for four percussionists
(joint project with Ctibor Bártek, Adam Kubíček and Martin Opršál) (1990); 00:07:00,
CR, TV, CD Pehy PY 00052 AAD 209.00
Night Invention for percussion solo (1991); 00:15:01
Uncertainties for four percussionists (1992); 00:15:22, TV, CD Wolf
Production, WORE 96 0003 – 2 („Generation“ Composition Competition Prize 1995)
Closer to the Stars for guitar, accordion and two percussionists (1993);
00:08:52, TV, CD Wolf Production, WORE 970007-2
Hyperrhythms for four percussionists (joint project with Ctibor Bártek,
Adam Kubíček and Martin Opršál) (1993); 00:12:00, TV, CD Wolf Production,
WORE 970007-2
Polar Night for percussion solo (1993); 00:08:53
Quartet for Keys and Bows for piano, harpsichord, synthesizer and
vibraphone (1994); 00:11:10, CD Wolf Production, WORE 970007-2
Meeting for zither, violin and exotic percussion (two players) (1994);
00:06:59, CR, TV, CD Wolf Production, WORE 970006-2
XI – 24 for four percussionists (1994); 00:06:13, Wolf
Productio, WORE 990011-2
Aëria for zither and percussion (one player) (1994);
00:07:06
Quartet for five flutes (1994); 00:10:21
Caprichos for violin and percussion (joint project with Peter Graham)
(1995); 00:03:32, CD Wolf Production, WORE 970006-2
Levitation for marimba and viola (1995); 00:08:02
Materialisation for piano (1995); 00:06:52
Esoteric Microconcerto for electric violin, synthesizer (two players),
vibraphone, marimba and cello (1996); 00:07:58, CD Wolf Production, WORE
970006-2
Conflict for two bassoons and cink (1996); 00:08:00
Fifth
element for electroacoustic string
quartet, synthesizers, sampler, theremin, percussion and tape (1999);
00:15:35, CR, TV, Wolf
Production, WORE 99OO14-2
Turbulence (2001); 00:10:42, CD 2000 FORZA
ORCHESTRAL WORKS
In medias res for orchestra (1997);
00:15:00, p JAMU
Between worlds (2002); 00:17:29, CD 2000 FORZA
VOCAL WORKS
Manipulation for
mixed choir (1994); 00:12:00
ELECTROACOUSTIC WORKS
Convergence for tape (1997);
00:06:08, CR,
TV, CD Wolf Production, WORE 990014-2
Divergence for voice and multiefect processor (1997);
(00:04:36), CR, TV,
CD Wolf Production, WORE 970006-2
Sublimation for theremin and tape (1998); 00:08:03, CR, TV, CD Wolf Production,
WORE 990014-2
Flights Over Four Tops of a Circle for tape
(1999), 00:07:15
Labyrinths of Seven Dimensions for tape (2000), 00:07:08
Aleph (2002); 00:10:16
Surrealistic
Object (2002); 00:07:30, CD 2000
FORZA
LARGE – SCALE PROJECTS
Wave Fronts – contacts between areas, spaces,
micro-, macro-, and mega–worlds and the human psyche, for seven players on
specially-created percussion instruments, large sound installations, synthesizers and
tape, audiovisual mutimedia project (1995); 01:10:00, CR, TV, CD Wolf Production
(00:43:00)
Worlds without Bounds I (joint audiovisual multimedia project with Ivo
Medek) (1993); 01:05:00
Adam and Eve – Planetary Oratorio (joint audiovisual multimedia project
with Ivo Medek, Alois Piňos, Zbyněk Matějů, Jiří Kollert and Daniel Forró) (1994);
01:00:00
Valley of Men (joint project with Adam Kubíček and Milan Popelka)
(1998), TV, CD DAMA DAMA Production (1999)
World of DAMA DAMA (2000);
the exhibition of Dan Dlouhý's musicall instruments in famous Brno gallery
"The House of Art"
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS:
CD – compact disc recording
CR – Czech Radio
HR – Hessische Rundfunk
JAMU – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, Brno
TV – Czech TV (ČST, ČT, Cabel Plus, TV Nova)
p – performance material
Some
of the experimental musical instruments made by Dan Dlouhý
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