MUFFLING FOG
After Martin Heidegger
2014

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

Composed in New York City in 2014, 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 relationship to it.

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. New York, US, 2015.

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