Quintet, camera lucida (2008)
for viola, cello, double bass, guitar and percussion 		< back to works 2008

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Duration: 3'

Commissioned by the Ensemblia Festival for their thirtieth anniversary

[MP3] [ ART Ensemble NRW / Miro Dobrowolny; MP3 excerpt in new window ]  [PDF]   [ complete score ]

Performance History

5/22/09 - ART Ensemble NRW - 2009 Ensemblia Festival, Mönchengladbach, Germany [Broadcast 8/30/09 on Deutschlandfunk]

 

Program Note

 

Roland Barthes is beside the point; I mean the camera lucida, the optical device that allows an image or scene to be superimposed upon a blank drawing surface for tracing purposes.  Here, the two ensembles—the string trio basso and the guitar/percussion duet—are in a state of equilibrium, projected image upon blank surface, trading stripped-down, more or less repetitive gestures that each make their own attempts at transparency and traceability but are each also resigned to a fundamental obscurity that will not lift.

 

 

 

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