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- Arne Nordheim
Colorazione (1968)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
Colorazione moves the composer's work with electronic means out of the studio, to become part of a live musical performance. Ensemble, percussion and Hammond organ (a sound typical of the times) create electronic timbre changes that edge toward the metallic. It is not only the timbre that changes, as time itself is put to the test in this work. Following a dealy of 15 seconds, a recording of the ensemble's sounds are played back to the ensemble in an altered state. This interchange is recaptured, and processed further. The accumulated past is sounded the entire time, influencing each musical moment. This may be experienced as the composer's attempt to capture and stop time, in an effort to move within timre itself. Attempts to break with a normal perception of time through such "musical time machines" are an important part of Nordheim's sense of musical form, and we find this principle utilized in other works as well.
- Morten Eide Pedersen
- Morten Eide Pedersen