Calliope Tsoupaki about “A Song for You”:
Song is the most direct way to make music the most giving one, and for me, making a song is a profound procedure, as if I am telling a secret.
Technically speaking, in this piece I focused on rules from the art of perfumery, touching on the common ground of music and scent composing. Terms such as high, middle, and low notes, chords and arpeggios, scales, etc., are also common in perfumery. It is, for me, a vibrant and fascinating way to think of sounds and harmonies in such different ways.
In “A Song for You,” high notes of the recorder intermingle in colour and mood with middle and low notes of the harpsichord, and long notes and melodies are carried away by ever-changing, flourishing arpeggios, as in a dance.
Composers in the crosshairs of our attention