Miller Theater is proud to present Iancu Dumitrescu he stands at the forefront of one of the 20th century's most invisible avant-gardes: The spectral composers of Romania. Operating on margins of a regime committed to Socialist Realism, his microscopic explorations of acoustics draw on both Western techniques and local traditions: the folk music research of Bela Bartok, Eastern Orthodox chant, and Byzantine mysticism.  The resulting compositions break apart sonic conventions. They refelce, in Dumitrescu's words, "the attempt to release or unveil the god that is living in every piece of base matter."

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