Minas Borboudakis

Roai V (midi ballade)

Roai V (midi ballade) by Minas Borboudakis is a 15-minute work for (bass) clarinet, viola and piano. The principle of the ballade and MIDI technology merge into one another. Thus, certain musical events are assigned to the piano keyboard, which are quasi 'switched on and off' while playing on it, i.e. performed by the two instruments behind the audience, as if from two loudspeakers. The result is a spatially interactive, flowing trio that attempts to imitate a sampler. Roai V (midi ballade) was premiered on 23 October 2010 in Ravensburg by Bettina Faiss (clarinets), Christiane Arnold (viola) and Minas Borboudakis (piano). This edition (EP 14282) is the performing score of the work.