an interesting project (I'd like to think)

[nikolas]

So,

I'm rather unknown as a composer, as a publisher and as a member here. YAY me on all accounts. BUT I am getting better in all these fields.

Anyhow,

I hope that you might take a moment and consider backing my project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2925155/beauty-and-hope-in-the-21st-century

If anything, the video's worth a watch...

The main plan is to combine art, in the form of sketch illustrations (of high quality, if I may add, and you can check for yourselves) with music for piano, composed today. There's three (3) artist from Poland, Argentina (living in the UK) and Colombia (living in Japan) who drew 9 illustrations. Then 9 composers from Greece, UK, USA, Spain and the Netherlands were assigned one each and are currently composing their works. After all of this is done, pianist Myrto Akrivou will perform and record the works...

But this is an ambitious project and we need... more... well... money... thus kickstarter.

Kickstarter is a crowd funding platform, which allows small developers and entrepreneurs to gather funds for the projects. But there's a small catch: If the goal is not reached by the end of the campaign (which in this case is on the 4th of March) then nothing happens. No money leave the donor's account, or credit card, and the creator of the campaign gets nothing.

So, by all means, check if any of this seems and sounds interesting. There's a few updates in, already, with more music and videos of the composers performing parts of their works...

Thanks for reading and checking it out. It does mean a lot and I'm here if you have any questions!

Nikolas Sideris

[nikolas]

So,

I'm bumping this thread once... I won't do it again I promise. After all there's 62 hours left in the campaign. We're at 61% roughly of the total... ! Which is brilliant and great and all, but we need more!

This is a "multi-media" project more or less. It involves classical music (for piano), illustrations and most probably a video as well (recent development).

The purpose is to produce and publish a high quality music score with 9 black and white illustrations, created by three artists, and 9 music scores, from nine composers. It also involves the recording of the 9 pieces by a pianist, to the best possible location in Greece (unless we actually have the funds to go elsewhere), and the production of the digital recording in downloadable form (mp3/flac) and physical form (CD) as well as the analog recording (double LP (Vinyl)). Then since this project contains so much art, I figured that a high quality, hard cover art-book with the illustrations, along with other information, sketches, drafts, ideas, etc should also be available in digital and physical format.

Obviously all the above cost a significant amount of money, that a small publisher like myself cannot take on as it stands right now! Thus the kickstarter effort.

Below one can see mockup images of what the products will most likely look like:



And further down are three examples of the illustrations. I can't post all nine, since it will flood the thread, so I hope these three will give enough of an idea.


[size:8pt]Creating the space


The kids are our future


The butterfly fixer[/size]

As one can see, there are different takes to what Beauty & Hope in the 21st century stands for. For the first artist (Elwira Pawlikowska) this was an opportunity to explore the recent developments in science and find ways to hope for a better tomorrow through that. For the second artist (Piero Pierini) his efforts went into a philosophical route, while the third artist (William Chajin) went to a rather political and social stance...

And each composer has taken a different route to their compositions. However, a common thread of a small aesthetic idea seems to coexist in all of them (as far as I can tell from the samples I've seen and heard). In the following soundcloud link one can listen to 4 examples of the music that's been composed.

https://soundcloud.com/editions-musica-ferrum/sets/beauty-hope-in-the-21st

Perhaps this added information will help you decide if this project is worthy of funding or not! As passive listeners (I checked in my introduction thread), I can understand the hesitation about this, which seems to be geared towards the 'active' doodlers, but none the less the recording will be worth it, as well as the artbook, and most other items. Even the music score, I can promise you, will be dead beautiful!

If you have any questions, by all means post ahead!

Nikolas

EDIT: I think that this thread was moved. I guess it was on the wrong forum. So sorry about this...