THE KING – Jordi Forniés (Video)
“A composition that tells a story of love and rejection. A lonely cello and a bright, expressive piano melody create a strong resonance in the soul. Everything sounds very solid and thoughtful. Emotions flow like a river, charge and push the consciousness towards changes and revolution.”
“Композиция, которая рассказывает историю любви и отвержения. Одинокая виолончель и яркая, выразительная мелодия фортепиано создают сильный резонанс в душе. Всё звучит очень цельно и продуманно. Эмоции льются рекой, заряжают и подталкивают сознание к изменениям и перевороту сознания. ”
-Nagamag.com
Jordi Forniés was able to interpret with the amazing Štěpán Švestka at the cello. The King is a composition that tells a story of being loved and rejected, a path to follow dreams and achieve them.
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Jordi Forniés is a Spanish musician, composer, and visual artist based in Singapore. His works are characterised by a continuum between tender overarching refrains and defined sequences with increasing momentum.
Always contemplative and expansive in nature, his compositions draw on neoclassical and ambient electronic music. Forniés composes for piano, strings, and small ensembles, working with studio recordings alongside electronic elements.
His first album Loudly Quiet will be released in 2021 together with his forthcoming solo exhibition under the same name. The album is a hopeful and poignant collection of compositions for piano and strings which each focus around an individual story or transient moment.
He has often worked in collaboration with others including Bouvaque with photographer and filmmaker Han Sungpil for which Forniés’ created a piano and string quartet score. He has composed for films including Caroline Fink’s epic documentary about the receding of the largest glacier in Switzerland, Aletsch: Of Ice and Men, 2016, and made music for documentaries and video installations with Gitta Gsell. He also worked on Yan Wang Preston’s major project Mother River, which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015.
A classically trained pianist since childhood, educated at Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Vila-seca in Spain, Forniés returned to music study in 2017 gaining an MFA in Music Composition and Orchestration at Chichester University in the UK. He is a member of the Composers Society of Singapore.
To check Jordi’s visual work please visit www.jordifornies.net
Reviewed by Nagamag on October 17, 2021