Vocalise is a short presentation of what we call "Life" with two reference points,
Birth and Death which are represented in a unison melody line.
This drawing by Matthieu Barrère shows exactly the structure of the piece.
Vocalise is a short journey to this observation of life, from birth to death.
''Dandelion'' is a music work, that is being in process, for solo voices, mixed choir and string orchestra in Greek text.
The work will be around an hour long and the main subject is what makes
us ''evil'' and how we fight it or accept it. When I say ''evil'' i mean
from the cruelest action that man has done to his fellow humans like
genocides, to daily routine acts that we all do, but may have great inpacts.
From the first man in
the world to the modern man the questions remains the same...
''why we
can't just live in piece?'' and ''why is this cruelty all around
us?''.
Those
thoughts have bothered me many years so it's my duty i think to make my
own statement.
Also unfortunately im am deeply motivated to write such a work when even in the times we all live,
we continue to make the same mistakes again and again,
after all the suffering humanity has endured all these years.
"I think the power of good art, it's more effective to people, than a political or a religious
organization."
The interviews in the trailer are from the documentary: Auschwitz - Inside the Nazi State
and the translation of the ending quote of the trailer in english is:
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
From January until June of 2009 Kostika Çollaku wrote a full score for the classic film Dracula - 1931 by Tod Browning as an exam for his music college.
The film hasn't original score, except the beginning titles where was playing Swan Lake by Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky.
Kostika Çollaku tried to modernize the mood of the film beginning from a new musical point.
Kostika Çollaku said:
''I didn't want to compose a classic soundrack with that "horror'' feeling. I found dracula more romantic than a horrifying creature that drinks blood. When I was composing, in my mind was the new generation of people and how they watches the film. I was trying to fill the "distance" between the two generations and the next ones''
