Amitâbha

Type: Digital score

Information

For 8 female voices and 5 violoncellos

Instrument(s): 8voices-5vc

Score (p.): 33

Composed in: 2022

Year of Publication: 2024

Publisher: Music Information Centre Lithuania

ISMN: 979-0-59991-638-7

Product ID: eLMIC 2434

The work was commissioned by the Melos - New Vocal Music Collective in 2022

Amithāba is the principal Budhha in Pure Land Buddhism, who is known as Amitāyus. Amithāba means “Infinite Light” or “Infinite Life” in Sanskrit. The structure of Amithāba is based on a textile weave, where each voice has its own repetition. Throughout the piece, the change of each repetition depends on the improvisation of singers who can use the “techniques” of the oldest singing style known as Drupha Darbar, which uses sounds and syllables rather than words. I am using the scale of Indian Sāranga raga, which expresses no pathos, but only tenderness. Over the course of the work, the role of the interweaving-repetitive patterns is to create the sound of the abstract, which goes beyond boundaries and is limitless.