Aperghis's scores are generally restrained, giving performers the freedom to make their own choices and take risks, which he encourages.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Aperghis often incorporates innovation into his performances by including electronics, video, machines, automatons, or robots.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Aperghis's music explores the boundaries of the intelligible and dialogues with other art forms like theatre, literature, humanities, social arts, and visual arts.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Aperghis believes music should dance, a quality he finds in Beethoven's music, and he often incorporates mechanisms and their malfunctions into his compositions.
Composition History
In 1976, Aperghis founded the 'Atelier Théâtre et Musique' (ATEM), where he organized creative workshops for actors, singers, and musicians.
Composer Biography
Georges Aperghis, born in Athens in 1945, has lived and worked in Paris since 1963.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Aperghis cultivates the repetition of certain motifs in his music, challenging the past notion that repetition was retrograde and against modernity.
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