Lukáš Janata: XII: ANTIPHŌ NA (2022): Bluvenduo, score follower

XII: Antiphōna deals with twelve different musical elements, amongst which prominence gets my longtime pushedback rock background and progrock era tendency to avoid simple fourchord progression. Starting the piece with such, the work showcases facing these hesitations in a more mature manner, balancing sophistication and visceral connection. Antiphōna is an ancient Greek word for harmonies. Much of the structure and its ideas are indeed harmonydriven, exploring the idiosyncratic plethora of possible chords that a nonguitarist composer would perhaps not think about. The voicings in the work indeed become fairly unique to the instrument, including numerous clashes that would clash differently at a different instrument. With a modern repurposing of the term, I am fascinated by the antiphonal character of the said clashes of the two fantastic instruments. XII : Antiphōna was commissioned by Bluvenduo with a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in 202