MUFFLING FOG - AFTER MARTIN HEIDEGGER | 2014

The Multimedia Concert for piano, sound, and video art.
Acoustic grand piano, stereo sound, and single-channel video. Duration: 45' 00
Composer, director, video, sound: Gio Janiashvili.

The work takes its inspiration from the philosophy of boredom of Martin Heidegger. In the multimedia concert, piano, sound, and video play equal importance in the performance structure, which examines emotional states of boredom and particularities of the flow of time in relation to it.

Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole. - Martin Heidegger.

Trailer:

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Audio excerpts:

Piano: Jemal Tavadze. Festival Tbilisi 2014: Contemporary Music Evenings, Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2014.

Extended audio excerpts - demonstrating the piano part:

Piano: Jemal Tavadze. Festival Tbilisi 2014: Contemporary Music Evenings, Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2014.

Award:

Tsinandali Award - Jury: Georgian-American pianist Alexander Toradze | Tbilisi, Georgia, 2015.

Performances:

Either/Or Ensemble's 10th Annual Spring Festival of Contemporary Music, Speyer Hall of University Settlement. Piano: Taka Kigawa. Direction and audio/video projection: Gio Janaishvili. Festival program: Morton Feldman, Horațiu Rădulescu, Anthony Coleman, Gio Janiashvili | New York, US, 2015.

Festival Tbilisi 2014: Contemporary Music Evenings, Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Piano: Jemal Tavadze. Direction and audio/video projection: Gio Janaishvili. Festival program: Charles Ives, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Arnold Schoenberg, Francois Bernard Mache, Robert Schumann, Teimuraz Bakuradze, Gio Janiashvili, Maurice Ravel, Péter Eötvös, Nicolas Vérin, Elliot Carter, etc. | Tbilisi, Georgia, 2014.

Broadcasts:

Unknown Music: 1TV, Georgian Public Broadcaster | Tbilisi, Georgia, 2017.
Imedi TV Channel | Tbilisi, Georgia, 2016.
Georgian Public Broadcaster Radio | Tbilisi, Georgia, 2015.