How should I put it...
The score describes this composition as an audio-drama for soprano, two actors, chamber orchestra and electronics (2021), conceived, importantly, as a spectacle but also as a work for voices and instruments in ten sections making up a logical and dramaturgical sequence. Tadeusz Wielecki describes it as an ‘road audio-drama’ and a philosophical parable. For the script, the composer selected texts by Jan Potocki, William Butler Yeats, Fernando Pessoa, Miron Białoszewski, and Jarosław Klejnocki. He also added his own material. Since How Should One Say It…takes us for a journey by rail, train announcements become part of the narration, and the sound of the railway station gong – a theme for variations. The journey is supposedly a metaphor of the voyage to ancient Colchis – but is it all there is to it? The voices heard in this humour-tinged audio-drama are those of Joanna Freszel, Matylda Damięcka, and the composer himself. The OMN New Music Orchestra performs under the baton of Szymon Bywalec.
In his commentary, the composer tells us point-blank that this is an audio-drama, but à rebours: ‘I have long considered the idea of imbuing musical sound with verbal meanings (and also – of “making” music out of words). […] The concept of “speaking music” is in fact not about conveying any specific semantic content. It is about the very sense of speaking, of a living human being speaking through the music.’ The subversive design is evident on every level of the work, as when the composer’s voice informs us: ‘I have managed to grasp it, but will the critics grasp the fact that I grasped it?’ As for us listeners, let us grasp it while the sun shines!
- Series: ANAKLASIS
- No. of edition: 1
- Published: 2025
- Type: CD
