Liburn Jupolli

Liburn Jupolli (born 11 December 1989 in Pristina, Kosovo) is an Albanian musician from Kosovo.

From the age of 12 he began to compose and to study music theory and composition taking private lessons in parallel with piano studies. Finished primary and high school of music in piano studies and 2 years of composition with prof.Zeqiria Ballata at the University of Prishtina. Since 2004 he has written music for theater,[1] film,animation, visual and conceptual productions[2] in the Balkans, and has written works for instrumentalists and ensembles from Kosovo and abroad. He also works on design and remodeling of new instruments, and since 2010 he finished in 5 original instruments.[3] Actually he studies composition in Paris at the "Jacques Ibert" Conservatory in the class of Stéphane de Gérando and electroacoustic composition at the CRR de Paris in the class of Denis Dufour. His music has been performed in Kosovo,[4] Danemark, France,[5] Germany, Italy,[6][7] England,[8]Finland>,[9]Estonia>[10] and New York.[11][12]

Instruments

Octo

The Octo[13] is the 1st instrument built in collaboration between me and Ari Lehtela(luthier-USA/Finland) it features : 8 strings, 43 microtonal frets, 8 separate outputs.

Clossor

The Clossor is the 1st remodeled instrument it features work in external design,1 new option of pre-recording in cassette-mode mounted in the back part of the body fretless neck and soon a switchable bridge from bass to contrabass.

The Sentinel

The Sentinel is a 88 string amplified instrument played by a special keyboard system which utilises electromotors to vibrate the strings.

Nematocera

Nematocera is a 67 string amplified instrument and in a kind of microtonal, electric koto.

Stragonaal

Stragonaal is a percussive metallic, amplified instrument made out of several metallic bowls.It is played by strking as regular percussions and by bowing. This version is a 1st prototype of what the real on is going to be and it has less properties to it.

Works

Piano

Strings

Electroacoustic

References

  1. ↑ http://dwp-kosovo.info/en/ARTS/picnic_on_the_battlefield_directed_by_florent_mehmeti
  2. ↑ http://old.zeri.info/artikulli/19449/selmani-flet-per-gjera-te-cuditshme-duke-ndodhur-ne-lagje
  3. ↑ http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/extended-range-guitars/152588-octo-microtonal-8-output-erg-ari-lehtela-liburn-jupolli.html
  4. ↑ http://www.damfest.com/pdf/DamFestPrishtina2008-EN.pdf
  5. ↑ http://alcome.fr/
  6. ↑ http://www.bjcem.org/xv-biennale-de-la-mediterranee-thessaloniki-rome-2011
  7. ↑ http://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/article/499/making-the-wrong-mistakes-liburn-jupolli-senad-jamini-at-the-biennale-mediterranea-16
  8. ↑ http://www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2010/01/liburn-jupolli-eta-carinae
  9. ↑ http://koha.net/?id=4&l=77495
  10. ↑ http://koha.net/?id=4&l=77495
  11. ↑ http://www.voxnovus.com/NM421/issue/14-05-09.htm
  12. ↑ http://nycemf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/NYCEMF-2014-Program.pdf
  13. ↑ http://koha.net/?id=4&l=43123

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