ARTAIR DEM

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To me and many others, Dem is one of the greatest and most imaginative composers currently alive. His works endlessly inspire us to more acutely examine the everyday experiences we take for granted, and the nature of reality itself. Though his works may from time to time seem chaotic and without direction, I most firmly assure you that they are not. Examine each of them with the most careful attention you can muster.

- Maxim Ivanoff

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A Dodecapod Of Clarinets

it is a single textured work. a half a movement of a suspended moment in which the buzzing ether of time before time and space before space it represented in a masterfully crafted soundscape of primordial static. 12 clarinets buzz and drone, mimicking the spectral shape of the cosmic microwave background radiation. This piece is representative of the state of things both before, and after creation.

Miniature for Piano No. 4

Do not be fooled by this piece. Its short length and sparing texture do not do justice to the true message within. It comes in two cycles. One, a minimal prelude followed by an augmented unison modulation downward to our next subject, a gradual slithering downwards toward a final eruption of force, leading into an altered repeat of the first subject group. The piece ends on a negation of the first eruption.

Interstellar Medium

Artair Dem's "Interstellar Medium" gives a literal account of the journey from the sun to the Interstellar Medium, a gaseous area of low atomic density between the sun and other stars. It is the most desolate area of intergalactic space. This piece seeks to immerse the audience in the mood of emptiness that emanates from such a state of nature.

Concave Mirror

In this masterpiece of texture and subtle motivic development, Artair Dem blends the dissonant with the consonant in a unique way that moves harmony forward. This piece analyzes the complicated relationship between image and reality.

About the Composer

"gluttonous membrane" for string orchestra, performed by
The OBC Philharmonic

Artair Dem was born in Amsterdam in 1991. At the age of 5, his family moved to the UK. Once there, he briefly entered public schooling before his innate musical proficiencies were discovered. Before long, he was taken out of public schooling in order to focus entirely on the development of his talents. From his earliest years, he was immersed in the music of great composers such as Adès, Penderecki, Boulez, Ives, and Bach. His earliest works most resemble early Mozart. But over time he shed that which was not at the cutting edge, and his music took on increasingly philosophical subjects.

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