Рефлексии „между културите“ при трима български композитори: Божидар Спасов (Есен), Симеон Пиронков-син (Виена), Драгомир Йосифов (София)
Reflections Between Cultures in Three Bulgarian Composers: Bozhidar Spassov (Essen), Simeon Pironkoff Jr. (Vienna), Dragomir Yossifov (Sofia)

Summary/Abstract: The text is devoted to three Bulgarian composers, related to the cultural migration after 1990. Relying on Homi Baba’s culturological theory of localization of culture, the author is problematizing composers’ approaches on different levels. The concept of hybridity has been viewed (first) in relation to concepts such as post-colonial and post-totalitarian, in relation with emigration, change, cultural ties etc.; (second) in connection with oppositions such as: ours-somebody else’s, identical-different; (third) in connection with the interplay between cultures and its reflection on each of the authors. In Bulgarian music Bozhidar Spassov was the first composer who seeks a territory for his music. In the idea of parallel running / or monitoring negating one another composite layers is emerging a paradigm, which refracts and confuses the identity / or diversity of the compositional subject. Simeon Pironkoff Jr. does not use idioms, related to Bulgarian folklore, but comes to the idea of a mutual penetration of conflicting language layers in the composition, thinking of them as fictitious in ambivalent focused techniques of translation in sound and time. Dragomir Yossifov searches for mystification of language layers in Shrono (u) topia. The second level of reflections is related to the identity and the problems of musical language. In Bozhidar Spassov the national symbols and myths fit into an ironic context. Simeon Pironkoff Jr. uses the word folklore only in the definition folklore of free association. The third level of reflection examines time as a category in intercultural composition and its reflections in all three composers. In all three of them the time is positioned in the territory of beyond (intercultural space), thus the composers express and distinguish their uniqueness in hybrid or intercultural territories of New Music.

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