The composer tried to combine the different meanings, significations and interpretations of the idea of the “transient”, The continuous change – and to use them as dialectic energies in the construction of a musical organism. Thus the “transient” character is present in this composition on different levels. First of all the level of sound material, which is in this case the range of possibilities in the field of sound production available nowadays with string instruments. Those possibilities include the traditional string sound, as well as the various systems of sound distortion and even the noise. Another level is the development of form: the succession, the overlapping and the transition of sound layers of different nature, different sound patterns or rhythmic patterns. There is also the level of historical context; the interaction of contact and repelling, first between tonal and atonal sound fields, then between sounds and noises, last of all between noises and silence.
(André Laporte)

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Symfonieorkest van de BRT, Ltg. Hiroshi Wakasugi
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