Three premieres in one month!
/This month of November 2022 is quite a special one as three of my compositions are being performed for the first time.
Treibsand for Alto and Sax-Alt
On Friday, November 11th, United Instruments of Lucilin presented Minimum 2/Maximum 3, a sample of their new repertoire, including my composition “Treibsand” at the November Music Festival in Den Bosch (NL).
Seen superficially, “Treibsand”, meaning “quicksand”, appears in nature as a solid, load-bearing surface, which, however, can very quickly take on unimagined other forms. I wanted to achieve something similar in my music. By "letting go" while composing, I tried to explore and use new spaces and possibilities. Nevertheless, the overall impression of great formal unity should always be given.
Very busy for Saxophon Alto and Piano
"Very busy" was created in the summer of 2016 in Austria (Vorarlberg). Light-hearted and with slight references to jazzy music, the composition experiments between the familiar and new techniques such as multiphonics, quarter tones, etc. The title also says it all. The title is also the programme, as both musicians communicate their respective moods with the text "very busy" while making music.
This piece premiered on November 13th in Hellange, where I hosted a private concert by the gifted Cologne (D) based “Duo Gegenwind”.
Obsessions – Voice and Percussion
And finally, November 25th will mark the premiere of my piece “Obsessions”, which will be performed by the Eunoia Quintett in Basel.
It was the sound poem KARAWANE (Train of Elephants) by Hugo Ball (1917), which inspired me to write this piece. Hugo Ball recited this semantically meaningless nonsense poem, along with other onomatopoeic works, for the first time in June 1916 at the Dadaist events in the café, cabaret and artists' meeting place "Cabaret Voltaire", which he founded in the same year in Zurich's Spiegelgasse.
gadji beri bimba glandridi laula lonni cadori
gadjama gramma berida bimbala glandri galassassa laulitalomini
gadji beri bin blassa glassala laula lonni cadorsu sassala bim
gadjama tuffm i zimzalla binban gligla wowolimai bin beri ban
o katalominai rhinozerossola hopsamen laulitalomini hoooo
gadjama rhinozerossola hopsamen
bluku terullala blaulala loooo
zimzim urullala zimzim urullala zimzim zanzibar zimzalla zam
elifantolim brussala bulomen brussala bulomen tromtata
velo da bang band affalo purzamai affalo purzamai lengado tor
gadjama bimbalo glandridi glassala zingtata pimpalo ögrögöööö
viola laxato viola zimbrabim viola uli paluji malooo
tuffm im zimbrabim negramai bumbalo negramai bumbalo tuffm i zim
gadjama bimbala oo beri gadjama gaga di gadjama affalo pinx
gaga di bumbalo bumbalo gadjamen
gaga di bling blong
gaga blung