general information

composition date
2001
duration
16 min
editor
Edition·S, Copenhague

type

Instrumental ensemble music (Mixed instrumental ensemble of 10 to 25 instruments)

detailed formation

flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, 3 percussionists, piano, violin, second violin, viola, cello, double bass

information about the creation

date
September 9, 2007

Danemark, Århus, The Music Hall

interpreters

le Aarhus Sinfonietta.

Program note

In its own favour it is supposedly obvious that the ambiguity must not be explicitly ambiguous: not until one is convinced shall it be called in question, the balance be disturbed, the contradictory direction be revealed: - on the one hand an important tilt-question in this music is the relationship between independence of musical individuum/identities, their role in a kind of relay polyphony and the individual’s subordinated role in a quivering unstable (musical) universe being in a kind of plasma-state in which all communication across ‘time and space’ is possible in an continuum of pulse, noise and tone, beyondness and presence. – On the other hand the piece develops - well temporarily quite unambiguous - as a sort of double concerto for violin and clarinet. The music is always on its way to somewhere – but never with only one destination.




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