Decagon (2024)
Premiere 3 August, Radar festival 2024
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DECAGON is conceived as an audio-visual composition for ten musicians, structured in ten separate parts. Each part corresponds to and is inspired by the integers from 10 to 1, exploring the symbolic, mathematical, and sonic qualities of each number. Like the geometric shape from which its name is taken, DECAGON balances symmetry and variation, with each section forming a side of a wider conceptual and sonic polygon. The work unfolds as a polygonal spiral – each part is a side of a decagon, slowly converging to a single point.
The ensemble functions both as a single body and as ten separate voices, exploring permutations, reductions, and reflections of each other.
Each movement explores the unique character and associations of its number: rhythmic, harmonic, spatial, or conceptual. “Binary World” (10) opens the work with maximum power and symmetry – a full decagon – while “Singular World” (1) closes it with bare intimacy and distilled essence. It is also a countdown, accumulated tension, which leads to an explosion, a resеt, a catharsis.
Bodurov seeks inspiration in various concepts that explore the connections of music with mathematics and numbers, as well as references to numerology, serialism, etc.
The premiere took place on August 3rd at the RADAR festival in Varna. And in October of the same year, Bodurov presented an adapted version together with the big band of the Bulgarian National Radio. An album of studio recordings of the project will be released in the fall of 2025.
Dimitar Bodurov, piano and composition • Neyko Bodurov, trumpet • Martin Hafizi, drums • Mihail Ivanov, bass • Alexander Logozarov, guitar • Georgi Shterev, tuba • Ivan Mеlin, trombone • Michel Nahabediyan, soprano sax • Hristo Goleminov, tenor sax, flute • Dimitar Liolev, alt sax • Petko Tanchev, video
This project is made possible with the financial support of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture 2023.
