à b (2016)
for solo piano
In memoriam Pierre Boulez
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score BDE in preparation
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: c. 20 minutes
Première
First performance: Tuesday 23 February 2016; Youngblood Gallery, 70-72 Bree Street, Cape Town, South Africa; Coila Enderstein piano.
Programme note
For this memorial work for Pierre Boulez who died earlier this year, I appropriated seven chords from his Improvisation I sur Mallarmé, and re-used them in various ways to simulate the sound of bells tolling. Boulez himself would probably not have countenanced this kind of music, and I was never interested to compose in the manner of Boulez, but his importance as a leading figure in the twentieth century can never be ignored. The material began life as a collaborative work with Sean Blem visual artist and Hideto Heshiki choregrapher, dancer which had the working title Hyperextension.
for solo piano
In memoriam Pierre Boulez
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score BDE in preparation
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: c. 20 minutes
Première
First performance: Tuesday 23 February 2016; Youngblood Gallery, 70-72 Bree Street, Cape Town, South Africa; Coila Enderstein piano.
Programme note
For this memorial work for Pierre Boulez who died earlier this year, I appropriated seven chords from his Improvisation I sur Mallarmé, and re-used them in various ways to simulate the sound of bells tolling. Boulez himself would probably not have countenanced this kind of music, and I was never interested to compose in the manner of Boulez, but his importance as a leading figure in the twentieth century can never be ignored. The material began life as a collaborative work with Sean Blem visual artist and Hideto Heshiki choregrapher, dancer which had the working title Hyperextension.
