Accordion - difficult
SKU: HL.49018091
Composed by Benjamin
Schweitzer. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Composed
2008/2009. 24 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED20759. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49018091).
ISBN
9790001170338. UPC:
884088520069.
9.0x12.0x0.115
inches.
The title
hidden tracks is
ambiguous. First of all,
the piece is almost
throughout imagined as
'multi-track', with
layers (in the sense of
sound tracks) that partly
overlay each other,
partly suddenly appear
from the background. The
composition deals with
'hidden' lines, sounds at
the perception threshold,
with side effects of the
accordion sound which
-observed, so to speak,
under a compositional
'microscope' - develop a
special allure: that is
the vertical component.
The title has also a
horizontal meaning: a
'hidden track' is a piece
on a record without a
track number that is not
mentioned on the cover
either. In most cases, a
'hidden track' follows
after a longer break
after the (presumably)
last piece on the record;
often this track contains
strange sounds, noise or
other surprising
elements. 'Hidden tracks'
are surrounded by a
nimbus of the mysterious
and subversive. This
effect is being used
rather often throughout
the piece: again and
again, it seems to have
ended but continues after
a pause. The expectation
of the listener and the
attentiveness also for
the tiniest events rises;
the performance receives
an almost scenic
character. hidden tracks
was partly composed in
August 2008 during a stay
at the Kunstlerhaus Lukas
in Ahrenshoop at the
shores of the Baltic Sea.
The work was accompanied
by many walks on the
beach - again and again,
I caught a sight on
tracks in the sand that
became overlaid by other
tracks, wiped out by the
wind and the waves...
Benjamin Schweitzer.
Title Track
