Description
“@ch” is a circular musical journey, divided into four consecutive movements. In the first movement “Hatch” all the instruments are playing as if they are inside an unhatched eggshell: the piano is damped, the clarinet is using slap tongue technique and the cello has only pizzicatos to play. In the beginning of the second movement “Match” the music hatches out from the damped sound world when the piano plays for the first time a trill with normal, clear sound. Later all the instruments are occasionally almost like glued together in a rhythmic unison. This state of uniformity is totally broken in the next movement “Mismatch”, when all the instruments play a complex canon using simultaneously different tempi and time signatures. The last movement “Scratch” turns again away from the normal, clear pitch into more noisy sounds and the work ends in a similar situation as it started. As the title “@ch” might suggest, the musical notes C and B (in German H) play an important role in various aspects in this work.
Tomi Räisänen, 2021
Instrumentation
cl, vlc, pno
Category
Chamber Works
Premiere
Trio Catch: Boglárka Pecze, clarinet, Eva Boesch, cello and Sun-Young Nam, piano, January 22, 2021, Ultraschall Berlin
Commisioned by / dedications
Dedicated to Trio Catch. Commissioned with funds from the Madetoja Foundation. Supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation and the Goethe-Institut.
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