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Sextet
2022
Clarinet
Electronics
Piano
Soprano
Unpitched Percussion
Violin
- Program Notes
- L4DD is a piece of mixed music for soprano, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and electronics that is part of the program that CrossingLines Ensemble dedicated to Georges Aperghis in its participation in 2022-2023 ENSEMS contemporary music festival (Valencia). The work, lasting 20 minutes, is divided into two: an introduction for modular synthesizer of approximately 5 minutes which is followed by a larger section with the entire instrumental group. The aforementioned introduction is, in turn, a response to one of the famous Recitations for solo voice by the Greek composer Georges Aperghis, and is separated from the main movement of L4DD by other pieces by the Greek composer, establishing an interesting temporal bridge between the two parts that make up L4DD. This relationship greatly conditions the proposal which, although it continues some of the author's most recent research on rhythm and sequencing, does so in a completely different context. The concert of which L4DD is a part is based on related pieces by Georges Aperghis in which the composer uses metric reiterations by increasing the number of elements (1 / 1,2 / 1,2,3 / etc). Thus, the work we present collects this idea and expands it, forming a network of sequences of different dimensions that appear and disappear in the different instruments, instruments with very specific roles where imitation between them always has a place since independence. The abstraction of the proposal contrasts with the concretion, sometimes theatrical, of the Greek composer's music, based on the use of the voice. This sought-after contrast has in the vocal instrument a not only timbral but poetic connection between the human and the machine from the “warmth” and “spontaneity” that surround the world of sounds and sequences. It is a music where the discursive component runs strictly from the music itself and where subjectivity is relegated to that which may arise from one's interaction with it. L4DD continues some of the author's research in the field of rhythm and sequencing in a piece that takes these questions to a different structural context. Although the previous pieces had generally worked from a larger dimension and always from independence, in this case the piece responds to a specific context from which it draws and with which it is closely related. In L4DD the rhythmic development does not arise from the riff and its mutations and/or fragmentations but from the arpeggiating function in the synthesizers from the connection with the rhythmic/metric processes of the music of Georges Aperghis programmed by CrossingLines ensemble. The incorporation of the voice as an instrument gives the work an added incentive due to the particular use that will be made of it, without text, from phonetics as a percussive and melodic germ. L4DD is a piece with entity and independence that in turn has the objective of being part of a greater whole that limits, conditions and enriches it. It is precisely in this dual character where its greatest uniqueness lies.
- Performer Credits
- CrossingLines Ensemble
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