Scent music: Calliope Tsoupaki on her piece Narcisus скачать в хорошем качестве

Scent music: Calliope Tsoupaki on her piece Narcisus

Watch my interview with expanded music composer Calliope Tsoupaki on her piece Narcisus. It is a musical drama for scent and 6 musicians. Music and scent are blended as a whole, influencing each other during the creative process and during the concert. It is an illusionary music that seduces our senses, ears, eyes and even our nose. The composer developed a scent experience together with Tanja Deurloo from Annindriya. “The scent influences my composition and my composition influences the scent” says Tsoupaki. The internationally renowned interior designer and landscape architect, Petra Blaisse from Inside Outside, developed the spatial design. Through sound, scent and environment you experience what the young and handsome adolescent Narcissus, who fell in love with himself in Greek mythology, goes through. This interview is part of my collaboration with the Berlin-based new music magazine Positionen and is published in German in Positionen issue number 141. Please explore this and my other interviews on scent-based music pieces. Calliope Tsoupaki is a Greek-Dutch composer living in Amsterdam. Her compositions combine East and West into a contemplative and spiritual whole. Her works contain elements that refer to her Greek roots and her love of early as well as contemporary music. The result is a completely personal style and timelessness music. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible.