My verbal score One minute is more than one minute (2012) is a composition for a group of at least five persons. This score is so constructed that large group or orchestras could also perform it. According to the instructions for the realisation of the score, the duration of the piece can vary between one-minute minimum to 60 minutes maximum. The members of the ensemble perform one action per minute. The exact structure of the piece is, like in all verbal/graphic pieces by Alexis Porfiriadis, to be decided collectively by the players before the performance. In these compositions the resultant realization should be the product of a conversation between the performers and by no means decided by one single person. In the case of a big ensemble (more than 15 people) or an orchestra, the musicians should first decide all together the total duration of the piece. Then, they must form smaller groups and decide individually what they are going to play during its total duration. The groups don’t have to know what the other groups are going to play. The actions of One minute is more than one minute can be combined in any manner, so that one action can continue while another one begins and more than one actions can be performed simultaneously etc.
The 60 actions described in this verbal score explore the production of sound. The fundamental sonic material to be produced is described with the following: “pitch-note / noise / sound-percussive sound / chord-cluster / melody / instrumental burble”’ as well as with actions and playing techniques as “scream / glissando / tremolo / recitation / scratching”. The durations, dynamics and the “arrangement” are described by “(very) short/ continuous/ (very) loud / quiet / played by 1-2-3-4-5 persons / played by all the members of the ensemble”. The sonic features and the manner of their execution within the space are described sometimes with instructions as: furious/ aggressive/ scattered in the room/ person should distance oneself from the other members of the ensemble.
The first performance took place in Athens by four members of 6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble (and students of the Music Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and one student of the School of Philology of the same university. The track is from this live performance.

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Alexis Porfiriadis (www.alexisporfiriadis.blogspot.gr) studied composition with Gerd Kühr, Beat Furrer and Mathias Spahlinger. He is currently working towards a PhD focusing on composition for improvisers, supervised by James Saunders (Bath-Spa University/UK). He received his master's degree and postgraduate diploma in composition from the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz. Selected prizes and awards including Music Promotion Prize of Graz, the Austrian State grand for Composition, the Scholarship for special academic achievements of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Culture, the Third Prize at the Second International competition for Composition for String Quartet by Molinari Quartet.
Alexis Porfiriadis' compositions from the last 5 years consist mainly of verbal and graphic scores. He is interested in composing for improvisers and in systematically investigating the possibilities opened up by verbal and graphic notation. He enjoys working with non-professional musicians and performers of all backgrounds, and adjusts his compositions to their individual needs and abilities.
Porfiriadis' compositions and installations have been presented in Europe, Canada and the USA.
As an improviser and performer, he has collaborated with artists coming from a variety of different media backgrounds in Greece, Austria and Serbia, and in 2007 he co-founded the 6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble (6daexit.wordpress.com).

Performers of One Minute is more than One Minute
Odysseas Gallios
Georgia Koumara
Angeliki Mousiou
Olga Papakonstantinou
Stelios Tsairidis