SKU: BT.GOB-000283-120
Composed during the summer of 1988. Commissioned by The Norwegian Brass Band Club First performed in the Grieg Hall¬? at the 10th Anniversary Concert for the Norwegian Championship, Bergen, February 1989. EBML conducted by Michael Antrobus. The work is important for me because it was my first piece to be played outside Norway. Black Dyke/David King performed it and did a recording of it in 1991. The composer: In the original score I quote a Swedish bishop (Olaus Mangnus) who lived in the 15th century. He travelled around Scandinavia and drew maps - very important historic material. When he came to the north of Norway (where I come from) hedescribed the wind from the north as Ciricus: (something like) Worst of all winds is Circius, that revolves(?= turn upside down) heaven and earth. (Well, not a good translation I¬?m afraid). The fast sections reflects the mighty winds from the north. In the middle section, I borrowed a folksong-like tune (by C. Elling, a norwegian composer). The text (by Kristoffer Janson) tells about old times when the fishermen used open boats: they had to put their lives in the hands of God. De opening en het slot van dit werk beschrijven 'Circius' de wind die hemel en aarde verwoest. Het middendeel is een bewerking van het Noorse volkslied 'The fisherman's speech to his son'. De inhoud van het lied komt overeen met Circius. De vader verzoekt zijn zoon de krachten van de natuur te trotseren, maar bovenal te respecteren. Een kort doch spectaculair concertwerk dat het gehele orkest in de greep heeft. Gobelin Music Publications.
SKU: BT.GOB-000283-020
SKU: BT.GOB-000037-130
SKU: BT.GOB-000037-030
SKU: HL.14033723
ISBN 9788759891322. Danish.
Together Apart/Apart Together for Saxophone, Accordion and Double Bass was composed by Karsten Fundal in 2004. Written for and commissioned by Poing. Programme note: This piece is the 3rd in a row of pieces, which concentrates on a rhythmical relationship that continues to puzzle me. It is actually two relationships embedded. The 1st is a pattern that is very inspired by the composer Per Norgard, who in the beginning of the 90's got very preoccupied with the idea that you can have rhythms that never meet. This happens if you start a rhythm, like a quintuplet, on the beat and one, like a triplet, off beat. This can, with different rhythms, give very intricate interwoven patterns, that gives the illusion that they are not cyclic. In my case I use the two ratio five to seven, in the described way. This rythms have the strange property that if you take each 5th note of the seven and each 7 note of the five you get a ratio almost identical: 49:50. This is very intriguing, as you can use the possibility of letting them be equal or the possibility of letting them interfere. In the first case you get an interlocking rhythm which is smooth: an equal rhythmic pattern. In the second case you get a similar situation, but where one of them is one short after 50 of the other ones, which results in a disturbing almost equality, but not quite. Therefore the title: because when I use the unequal rhythm I put the two layers in a similar tone register, or a similar way of playing, and when I use the equal one I put them a part tone wise speaking. This is a very technical description, but it is very hard to put it in more wide terms, but you might compare it with driving in a train and looking at two fence rows behind each other: if the poles are placed exactly halfway between each other you will experience an illusion of a fast jump if there is enough distance between them, as a result of the perspective. If they are placed in a way that there are almost the same numbers of poles, like 49:50, you will experience a very complex pattern, which seems unpredictable. But of course when using it in music the whole thing is somewhat different, but even then it gives an idea of my preoccupation. What also intrigues me is that the relations are very hard to use in a musical way, and that is also quire a challenge.' Finally I have to say that I enjoyed very much writing for Poing, as these crazy guys are capable of doing almost anything you want in an nearly literal sense. - Karsten Fundal summer 2004.
SKU: BR.EB-9459
ISBN 9790004189368. 10.5 x 14 inches.
TemA was written in the summer of 1968. In spite of Ligeti's Aventures it may be considered one of the first compositions in which the breathing plays a role as an accoustically transmitted energy process (Holliger, Globokar, Kagel, Schnebel and Stockhausen in Hymnen have already worked on this phenomenon independently of each other and from different points of view). Moreover, temA marks for me the first step into that musique concrete instrumentale in which the mechanical conditions of the sound production are incorporated into the composition. This characterizes my later pieces such as Kontrakadenz, Air, Pression etc. more consistently. In temA, unlike what happened in my previous works, the naturalistic extreme cases were consciously accepted but at the same time integrated into a very rigorous musical context which was also to give a new meaning to the traditional playing conceptions. The violation of the tabus felt in the nearly 70s (not only regarding this piece) lay to a less degree in the phenomenon of the sound deformation (snoring, pressed strings, soundless blowing etc.), since such an alienation was perfectly tolerated as an humoristic, dadaistic or expressionistic element. Rather the shock was caused by the technical logic of the movements which rendered relative the sheer surrealistic effect and had to be taken seriously instead of in an humoristic way.(Helmut Lachenmann, translation: Roger Clement)CD:Linda Hirst, Martin Fahlenbock, Lucas Fels CD Montaigne Auvidis MO 782023ensemble phorminxCD WER 6682 2Bibliography:Hiekel, Jorn Peter: Escaped from Paradise? Construction of Identity and Elements of Ritual in Vocal Works by Helmut Lachenmann and Giacinto Scelsi, in: Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities. Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West (= Routledge Research in Music 3), hrsg. von Christian Utz und Frederick Lau, London und New York: Routledge 2013, pp. 158-174.ders.: Helmut Lachenmann und seine Zeit, Laaber: Laaber 2023, S. 202-213.Meyer-Kalkus, Reinhart: Klangmotorik und verkorpertes Horen in der Musik Helmut Lachenmanns, in: Der Atem des Wanderers. Der Komponist Helmut Lachenmann, hrsg. von Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, Mainz: Schott 2006, pp. 91-110.ders.: Stimme und Atemsyntax in Vortragskunst, Prosa und Musik, in: Musik & Asthetik, Heft 51 (Juli 2009), pp. 73-106.Nonnenmann, Karl Rainer: Auftakt der instrumentalen musique concrete. Helmut Lachenmanns temA, in: MusikTexte 67/68 (1997), pp. 106-114.Saxer, Marion: Kunstgesang als Klangsymbol. Belcanto in experimenteller Vokalmusik nach 1960, in: Musik & Asthetik, Heft 92 (Oktober 2019), S. 5-25 Weber,Barbara Balba: ,,Es musste einfach schick sein, beim Musikhoren etwas zuriskieren. Weltbezuge bei Lachenmann: Perspektive der Musikvermittlung, in:Zuruck zur Gegenwart? Weltbezuge in neuer Musik, hrsg. von Jorn Peter Hiekel(Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt55), Mainz: Schott 2015, pp. 160-169.World premiere: Stuttgart, February 19, 1969.
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