Recommendations

Prelude I: Harmonic Encounters / weird scenes inside the mirror cages I / Vertical Horizon I / umbrellas & sewing machines / I'm dancing on the edge of time II / the lonely monk's reflections II

 

Fünf Bruchstücke / Etude III / Freie Stücke / Fieberphantasie

 

Vom Durst nach Dasein / Gullinkambi / Zigzag

 

Streichtrio / ... kaum einen Hauch / Annäherungen / Arcade / Durchbrochene Räume

 

lys / nichts als geräusch / Resonanzen / weights and measures / Schwellen / Ein Ort für Zufälle

Description

Description

Jörg Mainka is a composer who made room for his dreams.
In Mainka's case, his theoretical work cannot be separated from his composing: the one is unthinkable without the other. His efforts at conceptualization are aimed exclusively at recognizing and examining connections, where "examining" means a constant effort to relate each laboriously discovered concept to an idea. For Mainka, examination is a lively discourse conducted from different directions and unexpected angles; and theory, rather than distorting the act of composition, still less functioning as its opposite, serves as a point of departure and a destination.
It is a fortunate state of affairs – and not only for his students, because Mainka's compositions express his enduring delight in playfulness.

Content

Viertel = 100 für Flöte, Stimme, Schlagzeug, Karnevalströte, Drum-Computer und Tonband
Tutti. Komposition für Orchester mit 11 Trompeten
"La condition humaine", aus dem Blickwinkel eines rotierenden Tonkopfes für Ensemble und digitales Tonband
Frédéric. "Nacherzählung" für vier Woodblocks, Klavier und Ensemble
Mitschnitt für vier Violoncelli, zwei Schlagzeuger und Tonbandschleife
Anschlags-Kultur. Musikalisches Szenario für einen Darsteller, Klavier und Kleine Trommel