CD – World Edition

This work, co-producted with Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) is the latest project by Peter Ablinger, an Austrian composer with a background in jazz and composition who since the eighties has been based in Berlin and has been attentive to developments in contemporary chamber music, electro-acoustic and sound installations. These four pieces include contributions from Erik Drescher on the flute and CD printing was facilitated thanks to generous support from the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) at the University of Huddersfield. “When I imagine, as I sometimes do”, says Ablinger “that evolution were possible… complexity is not its goal, but perhaps [as the] the safety net for a possible immediacy”. His point of view is filtered – then – through abstraction of signs, where certain predetermined patterns speak of an unchanged reality, but one in which new configuration may occur. The pieces function as assumptions about what once was immeasurable; “Hypothesen über das Mondlicht” is a polyphonic composition combining polyrhythmic structures using sixteen flutes, in a game of microtonal arpeggios with quick attacks and short duration of notes. More dark and mysterious sequences are found in “SS Giovanni e Paolo” where three flutes resound with glissando bass reverberations amid environmental noises and field recordings of hushed voices. In” Ohne Titel / 3 Flöten” the agreements are even more dense and structured, with three more flutes atonally overlapping in dry repeated structures. It closes with “Moiréstudie für Chiyoko Szlavnics” where sounds evolve more unanimously and diatonically, partly hectic but somehow coherent.

 

Peter Ablinger – Augmented Studies