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Pistol shots in the piano’s resonating chamber, passing cars, short quotations from Haydn; light music from the adjoining room, contrabass clarinet sounds recorded with microphones extremely far from the instrument and confronted with ambient noise from the environment: Hannes Seidl’s “Music for Above the Mantelpiece” is firmly rooted in the “mundane” here and now. Meant for home-listening, art music is interwoven with everyday noises; the pieces are quoting themselves, sounds are devaluated. This CD claims autonomy; it does not simulate a concert, it is not an image. The CD’s technical possibilities such as repetitions, jerky leaps in loudness, quotes, change of microphones etc. are used to broach the issue of the home-listening situation with its underlaying of urban noises such as yelling, cars, and pop music – in short: the intrusion of reality.
In this sense, Seidl’s compositional approach responds to the ongoing changes in the way we perceive music, and seeks to re-establish contact with reality. The result is music that declines to draw its legitimacy from some externally defined form of sublimity or to wrest hidden “truths“ from its materials. Instead, it tries to make headway in our cultural discourse as a living, reality-based form of art.

Content

Was mich angeht [What concers me] for four tenor trombones
The Art of Home Entertainment for violin, tenor saxophone, piano, percussion and tape
Zimmerrauschen [Room Noise]. Radio play for contrabass clarinet with different microphone settings and environmental sounds
Die Anderen – Jetzt Neu! [The Others – New And Improved!] for piano and tape
Leihgabe [On Loan] for cello and mixing desk

Performers

Composers Slide Quartet / ensemble Intégrales / Theo Nabicht: clarinet / Hannes Seidl: electronics / Sebastian Berweck: piano / Andreas Lindenbaum: cello / Christoph Franke: electronics

More Information

Title:
Music for Above the Mantelpiece
Publisher/Label:
Wergo
Duration:
78 ′15 ′′
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
WER 65742
MAN EAN:
4010228657425
Weight:
0,12 kg

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