Date: 1 September 2018

Time: 21:00

Entrance: Free

Composer, pianist and innovator Liburn Jupolli comes with a special program to Lumbardhi, where he will perform his compositions traveling from Northern Europe to Southeast Africa and Asia, including landscapes from the futuristic and brutalist structures of Balkan architecture.

The concert begins with the sounds composed by the participants in the workshop that takes place the day before, which will accompany the film Un Chien Andalou by Louis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, while continuing with his authorial program.

The program includes 2 works from 2015 and the last ones, combining the sound spaces created by Octo as a solo instrument ‘spacial’, exploring the microinterval features of the instrument in combination with the specific compound ‘spacial’ for the 8 outputs that the instrument has . Octo, as a solo instrument, in works like “Snarrh” (solo version of the original orchestral work) explores the musical bridge of Albanian and Balkan instruments which have a mix of tonal possibilities from Western Europe and south-eastern Europe, combining them in lines homogeneous of expression and at the same time as complex tonal landscapes.

Other works explore the repetitive totemic aspects of Albanian ISO polyphony and mountain singing in Kosovo, reflecting the repetition of African percussion and Balkan sensitivity to rhythmic complexity and emphasis. KurrizCold Dance, Øresund Line and Vortex Maisema are musical impressions of the futuristic and brutalist structures of Balkan architecture.

Liburn Jupolli is a composer, pianist and innovator in the field of classical music and alternative genres. He has a special interest in the innovation of musical instruments and the improvement of communication and musical education, as a medium of holistic communication and as a tool that can serve in learning other topics such as mathematics. He is currently studying in France, where he has completed his Master studies at EdTech with a focus on the development of musical instruments and communication at CRI – Center de Recherche Interdisciplinaire – Paris Descartes, where he is a PhD candidate.