{"id":2732,"date":"2022-06-19T13:01:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T10:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/translatorium.com.ua\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2022-07-15T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:29:58","slug":"amadoka-in-the-language-of-contemporary-classical-music-a-concert-based-on-the-novel-by-sofia-andrukhovych","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/translatorium.com.ua\/en\/2022\/06\/amadoka-in-the-language-of-contemporary-classical-music-a-concert-based-on-the-novel-by-sofia-andrukhovych\/","title":{"rendered":"Amadoka in the Language of Contemporary Classical Music \u2014 a concert based on the novel by Sofia Andrukhovych"},"content":{"rendered":"

The project was created as part of the V Literary and Translation Festival TRANSLATORIUM that took place on October 1-3, 2021. Its idea arose from the intent to show the literary work through the lens of classical music, make an intersemiotic translation of the artwork to discover new meanings, bring new focuses, and look at this work in a new way with another medium.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The novel <\/span>Amadoka<\/span><\/i> by Sofia Andrukhovych, published by the Old Lion Publishing House in 2020, immediately attracted attention both with its form and its content. The plot covers three painful periods of Ukrainian history, shown through the detailed web of human destinies against the background of the hypothesis of the existence of the Amadoka Lake, which is skillfully wrapped in the metaphor of memory and its loss. Kyiv today, Buchach during World War II, and Kyiv during Stalin\u2019s repressions: Romana, an archivist, tries to restore the memory of the anti-terrorist operation soldier Bohdan by telling him the stories from his family\u2019s life; Uliana, a nurse, saves Pinkhas from the persecution of Jews and seeks a safe and unknown hiding place for him; Mykola Zerov\u2019s wife Sofia falls in love with their family friend Viktor Petrov during the period of exile of the Ukrainian intellectuals. Amadoka, Europe\u2019s largest lake recorded on medieval maps, disappears without a trace. Is the loss of stories of people and phenomena, the loss of knowledge and memory, a natural or accidental process? This thick and multi-layered text, which speaks of reality in artistic language, leaves a mighty and indescribable impression, as it touches on very complex sensory topics that cannot be described in words. And when one runs out of words, it\u2019s time for more abstract forms of communication, such as music.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The project involved three Ukrainian composers: Boris Loginov, Maxim Kolomiiets, and Albert Saprykin. Each of them worked separately on one of the three historical periods described in the novel, but also worked together, given the unity of the text, in order to create a coherent musical narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n

The concert included three indivisible parts:<\/span><\/p>\n

Sofia<\/span><\/i> \u2014 performed by Orest Smovzh (violin), and composed by Albert Saprykin. Here you can listen to a fragment of the piece:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>