Description

Verso is a piece about sprouting. The work has five consecutive movements. The Finnish word itu means an early stage of a sprout. Silmu is a young shoot, and silmukka means a loop, which refers to the canonic structure of the movement. Verso is the next growing stage of the shoot, and versio means version: the same passage repeats in different harmonic versions. In the next movement, Vesuri (a cutting tool billhook), the music is cut out totally: instead of instruments, we hear the sounds of breaking dry branches and the buzzing of imaginary microscopic plants and insects. Vesa is a new shoot that grows out from a tree stump. TR, 2021

Instrumentation

afl, vla, db, pno, tape

Category

Chamber Works

Premiere

Ensemble Klangrauschen: Liz Farrell, alto flute, Marie Yamanaka, viola, Heiko Maschmann, contrabass and Ninon Gloger, piano.November 23, 2019 in Lübeck, Germany

Movements

I. Itu, II. Silmu(kka), III. Vers(i)o, IV. Vesuri, V. Vesa

Commisioned by / dedications

Commissioned by Ensemble Klangrauschen

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Archive number

MF34639

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