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- Karl Aage Rasmussen
Continuo (1991)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
For flute and guitar
Commissioned by duo Most/Kunz with funds provided by the Danish Arts Foundation
Continuo (‘continuous’, - ‘persistent’) playfully investigates tempo-illusions not unlike the visual illusions in Rudolf Eschers well-known drawings, where one is tricked into believing that the water in a streaming flood runs upwards, or that people ascending winding stairs are in fact getting nowhere. The musical illusion is a tempo which seems to get faster or slower, continuously, endlessly.
Commissioned by duo Most/Kunz with funds provided by the Danish Arts Foundation
Continuo (‘continuous’, - ‘persistent’) playfully investigates tempo-illusions not unlike the visual illusions in Rudolf Eschers well-known drawings, where one is tricked into believing that the water in a streaming flood runs upwards, or that people ascending winding stairs are in fact getting nowhere. The musical illusion is a tempo which seems to get faster or slower, continuously, endlessly.