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Quipo was a device used among the ancient Peruvians for deeping accounts as well as recording important events. Smaller, multi-coloured knotted braids were attached to a thick cord. This colourful, albeit compicated mosaic, manifests itself in the musical variability of time signatures, as well as in the appearance of seemingly spontaneous, successive motifs. The work was written in response to a commission from the organisers of the 2nd Competition for Young Viloists in Wrocław as a compulsory piece for the younger group during auditions in 2005. Duration: ca 3'.

Quincunx is an arrangement of five objects in a square, one at each corner and one in the middle. In musical terms this idea might be understood as the placing of sounds in space. Buy how ist it possible to realize such an idea in the case of a single instrument? Luckily, compositional technique can be transmitted both in the very form of notation and in the planning of the seemingly one-part melodic line... The work was written in response to a commission from the organisers of the 2nd Competition for Young Violists in Wrocław as a compulsroy piece for the older group during auditions in 2005. Duration: ca 3'.

Lista utworów:
Quipo (Moc Michał)
Quincunx (Moc Michał)