Ordinary Music Vol.16: String Quartet
A reference-tone is allocated to each instrument. This note can be raised
or lowered always by a half- or fulltone and transposed in any octav. This
allows to play intervals of a minor/mayor 2nd and 3rd and the inversion:
min./may. 6th and 7th (as well as unisons and octaves). The score provides
a palette of timbres and ornaments, as material for an improvisation.
In my work I am trying to establish the framework-conditions for creative
music playing. Sound-surface concerns me only insofar as it is a result of
these conditions. “Experimental Music” for me is an investigation in a domination-free
sphere.
The piece was premiered in 2010, by Ensemble Resonanz, on Blurred Edges festival of current Music in Hamburg