“ … and have all but lost our language to the unknown”
Five figures for violin and violoncello (2005)
Duration: 20'
Premiere:
20.10.2005
City: Linz - ORF Landesstudio OÖ
Interpret(en): Christian Altenburger, Violine | Patrick Demenga, Violoncello
For me music is language, and language is a “character-set in the possession of a linguistic community”.
The musical language of the present is essentially produced by aesthetic restraints, if not to say “reduced”, and therefore lives on evermore as “residue” of an ever-dwindling community. For each work a new language is invented – “ultimately, one must never repeat oneself” – but who can keep pace with “acquiring” these myriad languages? We have all but lost our common character set, our language, as a basis for communication.
Wie oft bei Schmidinger fußt das Stück auf dem Nachdenken über Texte, Sprache und Kommunikation. Es entsteht der Eindruck, dass Violine und Cello einander annähern und entfernen und einfühlsam versuchen, die Sprache des jeweils anderen zu sprechen, um so zur Einigung zu kommen.
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