Mark Pekarsky

The White and the Dark are always together.
One does not exist without the other.
The White is always less than the Dark.
The White and the Dark are not mathematical concepts.

Mark Pekarsky will play pieces by
Nikolay Popov | Arkhaim for electronics and percussion (2011) Persian frame-drum tar, echoes, electronics
Arkhaim, an ancient town, discovered in the Southern Ural, had been lost in the “dark” of the Bronze Age, undoubtedly is more light-coloured than Butirskaya prison or Guantanamo.

Vladimir Martynov | Meditation (1978) for wooden log-drum
Martynov’s “Midnight” Meditation nearly whispered, and can contend in its “morningfulness” with Musorgsky’s Dawn on the Moscva-River.

Sophia Gubaidulina | Do You Hear Us Luigi? — This Is Dance, That a Common Wooden Rattle Will Dance For You… (dedication to Luigi Nono, 1990) for Japanese rattle bin-sazara and African temple-block
Gubaidulina’s “dark” mournful miniature is more light-coloured than creations of some soviet official composer.