Donaueschinger Musiktage 2002, Vol 2

FRANCK BEDROSSIAN (b.1971): Swing for 11 Instruments, RAPHAËL CENDO (b.1975): Introduction Aux Ténèbres for Bass-Baritone, Double Bass, 13 Players and Live Electronics (Romain Bischhoff [bass-baritone], Nicolas Crosse [double bass], Ictus Enscemble; Georges-Elie Octors), CHRISTOPHER TREBUE MOORE (b.1976): Strange Attractors for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Percussion and Electronics (Soloists of musikFabrik).

Catalogue Number: 08N105

Label: Neos

Reference: 11052

Format: CD

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Description: Bedrossian's Swing continues the composer's preoccupation with 'saturation' in sound; it consists of episodes of densely-textured material rich in extended technique sounds and violent contrasts of tempo. The jazz reference in the title is ironic, but also suggests the freewheeling instrumental virtuosity of some types of free jazz. Cendo's work sets three sections of the Apocalypse of St John for overwhelmingly low-pitched forces and electronics. Rather than an active, Romantic-era view of the end of the world, this is a numb, shocked, resonant aftermath - a scientifictional post-apocalyptic view of the Biblical end of days more than a religious one. The sounds, both instrumental and electronic, form a nightmarish, portentous soundscape, with fragments of the text intoned against †heir own distorted echoes in the electronic part, against a seething backdrop of fluid sonorities, punctuated by screams an flashes of lightning. Moore's title refers to the convergent nodes that give rise to regular patterns in chaos theory. His musical analogy of this is lines of chaotic material in instrumental multiphonics and extended sounds and rustling, fluttering electronics, from which, over time, shapes and patterns seem to emerge. SACD hybrid

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