general information

composition date
2007
duration
10 min
editor
Ricordi
Commission
Ensemble intercontemporain, pour les trente ans de l'Ensemble

type

Chamber music (Winds, keyboard, and strings - 6 or more musicians)

detailed formation

oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, violin, viola

information about the creation

date
April 5, 2007

France, Paris, Ircam

interpreters

l'Ensemble intercontemporain.

Program note

For this piece, I imagined a gigantic piano, like a piano in dream world, though the pianist does not have to be gigantic, but just able to play the instrument! To create this, I devided the ensemble into two parts. One group contains the piano, violin and viola, the other the wind trio. The violin and viola play with a plectrum (like pizzicato., but making a harder sound) when they play with piano. So this group is the super-piano, the percussive part, the part which is "actually" played. Often, the piano holds a specific "silent chord" which resonates. Usually the resonance of the piano dies away, but I imagine it floating and then developing. I chose particular multiphonics to be played by the woodwind instruments that should support the resonance from the piano, which then make this imagined development. Also rather than just hold a note or a chord, I wanted some action inside this. Therefore the hamony slowly shifts without using trills. A melody grows from this texture. The silently held chords in the piano part (the chord resonaters) are strongly related to the pitches of the multiphonics, and the percussive part in the piano, violin and the viola is an expansion of the multiphonics chords. I imagine the sound to be "circulating" a little above the piano.



Dai Fujikura.

recordings

Go to the media page

complete.mp3

Composed by Dai Fujikura , concert on April 5, 2007


similar works


This entry is encyclopaedic in nature and does not reflect the collections of the Ircam media library. Please refer to the "scores" entries.


Do you notice a mistake?

IRCAM

1, place Igor-Stravinsky
75004 Paris
+33 1 44 78 48 43

opening times

Monday through Friday 9:30am-7pm
Closed Saturday and Sunday

subway access

Hôtel de Ville, Rambuteau, Châtelet, Les Halles

Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique

Copyright © 2022 Ircam. All rights reserved.