Mnemonist S - Yannis Kyriakides - ASKO ensemble

The inspiration for this piece comes from two sources: Aleksandr Luria’s “The Mind of Mnemonist“, which is based on a case study of the Russian mnemonist Solomon V. Shereshevskii (1886-1958). The text used in this piece centres around a recollection of the memory system he used in a performance in 1936 where he had to recall a large series of syllable permutations, VA NA MA SA, which were read to him only once. The text gives us a glimpse of the narratives he created in his mind to recall an abstract and se