Lombardy poplar
1 sound
Current age: Mature
Size at maturity: 30m
Species native to: Clone: Propogated by cuttings from indiviual tree in Lombardy, Northern Italy
Tree identification number: 0HX5
Composer name
Iason Maroulis
About the composer:
Iason Maroulis is a young Greek composer and trumpet player based in London. He is interested in the envelope of sound and in its manipulation through both acoustic and electronic means. He is trying to explore the ways that sound is produced in acoustic instruments and ways in which it can be organized in order to create sonorities and gestures, where an ensemble functions as one sound, whose members act as the different parts of this sound’s envelope.
Iason is currently an undergraduate Composition student at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Rubens Askenar
About the tree:
The Lombardy poplar is a fast growing tree; the tall, narrow 'fastigiate' form of these trees features in windbelts across the world.
About the composition:
This piece tries to highlight an image beyond the first impression, of grandeur and strength, that this tree might give to a viewer, and draw the attention of the listeners in less obvious characteristics of the tree, like its beautifully shaped leaves and their movement when set in motion by the wind. The piece is constructed by percussive sounds which give the impression of something stable and less elegant, but these percussive sounds ignite a very fragile resonance that reveals another more elegant sound world.
