Simon Steen-Andersen (1976)

Praesens (2001)

pour 14 musiciens

  • Informations générales
    • Date de composition : 2001
    • Durée : 16 mn 33 s
    • Éditeur : Edition·S
Effectif détaillé
  • flûte, clarinette, cor, trompette, trombone, 3 percussionnistes, piano, violon, violon II, alto, violoncelle, contrebasse

Information sur la création

  • Date : 9 septembre 2007
    Lieu :

    Danemark, Århus, The Music Hall


    Interprètes :

    le Aarhus Sinfonietta.

Note de programme

In its own favour it is supposedly obvious that the ambiguity must not be explicitly ambiguous: not until one is convinced shall it be called in question, the balance be disturbed, the contradictory direction be revealed: - on the one hand an important tilt-question in this music is the relationship between independence of musical individuum/identities, their role in a kind of relay polyphony and the individual’s subordinated role in a quivering unstable (musical) universe being in a kind of plasma-state in which all communication across ‘time and space’ is possible in an continuum of pulse, noise and tone, beyondness and presence. – On the other hand the piece develops - well temporarily quite unambiguous - as a sort of double concerto for violin and clarinet. The music is always on its way to somewhere – but never with only one destination.