Von Artefakten
for orchestra (2015)
Von Artefakten is an
attempt to examine in microscopic detail the compactness of final
orchestral chords from the Romantic and late Romantic periods, with the
compositional focus also taking in the macroscopically crude outline of
the interfaces.
Experiments led me to discover a rich
blend of complex sounds and artefacts featuring the finest of nuances.
Often described as irritating illusory phenomena, I do not seek to
ignore these sound particles as unloved scraps of noise, but instead
expand them and use them as compositional components. The information of
a recording perhaps plays a role here, but I am particularly taken by the
countless incidental sounds of the instruments, of the orchestra as a
body of sound, and of the audience within the space of the preserved
concert. It's those distilled distortions of sound which also during the live process become a playground. The result of this research is four sketches for orchestra.
Dresdner Philharmonie
Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
18 May 2015, WP, Concert Hall, HfM Dresden, Germany
A cooperation of Dresdner Philharmonie with KlangNetz Dresden
