"Kwhan" is scored for oboe, harp, celeste, 5 temple blocks, a tam-tam and cymbal, and was written between the Autumn of 1998 and the end of 1999. The title of the work derives from the last trigram as it occurs in a particular permutation of the I Ching, which sits within the work,s central architecture. The way in which the trigrams 'unfold', is such that each symbol exists independently but is also permeated by the surrounding symbols, forming a gradient of structure and perspective.
These inner relationships of the trigrams are mirrored in the constituent aspects of "Kwhan". The 'structural centre', consists of a series of overlapping panels within which sub-sections mirror both the work,s larger structure and the trigram permutations. The marked differences between the individual instruments, capacities for percussive attack, evanescence and sustained sound are realised in a sonic curve (represented also by the placing of the instruments from left to right and the resultant interplay of their sound) within which exists a gradation between the suspension and decay of sound.
Graduated from Baku Music Academy in 1994 (comp, class by. prot Faraj Karaev) in 1 998 past-graduate course with the same teacher. 1 999 - participation in International Composition Course, led by James Dillon and Ole Lutrow-Holm, first performance of "Intra cancellos" in Goteborg 1999 - participation in 5th International Young Composers Meeting, Led by Louis Andriessen and Michael Smetanin in Apeldoorn, Holland.
CANDENTIA means whiteness, shinning. White color doesn't exist in the nature, it appears only by means of combining all possible colors and includes all spectrum of the diverse tones, moods, fimbers. Meantlme, it surprisingly remains most delicate flexible substance, passing all through itself. Color of colors, moods of moods, timber of fimbers, it turns into NOTHING, emptiness, and form this high point movement upward or downward could initiate division into the spectrum for creating emptiness again. This work has three parts: 1) free use of tones 2) full dodecaphony row 3) also six tones used, but this time in the strict order.
Pongsakorn Pataradetpisan was born in November 1971 in Bangkok, Thailand. He started his first music lesson in piano when he was sixteen years old. In 1991, he furthered his musical career by entering the Tashkent State Conservatoire in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, majoring in Piano Performance before switching to Composition and a had Prof. Felix Yanovyanovsky, the world renowned composer, as his teacher. His prece under the titled "Miniature for Soprano, Piano and Percussion" won fist prize in the Tashkent Composers Compeuuon in 1999 the same year he finished his master degree programme with distinction.
"The Three Prosodies of CHANT" has been selected by the Composers Association of Thailand's Executive Committee as the represented piece for Thailand in ACL Young Composers Competition 2000 in Yokohama, Japan. The piece is consisted with three prosodies of Chant whereby the various of rhythmatic patterns will be presented. "Chant" is the extraordinary Thai traditional poetry form which was first introduce to Thai people by pioneer court poets in early Ayudhya's period.
