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| CD edition Wandelweiser EWR 1903 recorded: muenster 2008 (3), ljubljana 2011 (1), 2019 (2) recording: erhard hirt (3), martin wurmnest (1) burkhard schlothauer (2) mix, editing, mastering: burkhard schlothauer executive producer: antoine beuger layout: daniel bechem, mess media, berlin is nine a plagiarism? the well-known zagreb music biennale, which has been a hotspot for contemporary music for more than 30 years, asked rein- hold friedl, musical director of zeitkratzer, to perform a program of late ensemble works by john cage in 2010. unfortunately, however, there are only a few works that could be performed with the full cast of zeitkratzer. so i suggested that i would rewrite the non-existent number piece nine for zeitkratzer. in my master thesis, i had thoroughly studied john cage's number pieces, their compositional style - in particular seven, one of the first works in this series - and had already recorded and produced this composition in 2002 (EWR 0604). the number pieces, of which there are about 50, were all composed by using of chance operations, applied to certain predefined possibilities available for selection. the compositional process therefore consists to a large extent of determining the sound material and the questions to be asked. the actual transformation into the notes can then be done relatively mechanically. by analyzing the scores of the number pieces, it is possible to deduce the questions answered by the chance operations. from that, the material and its possibilities in terms of pitches, dynamic range of values, articulation variants etc. can be determined fairly reliably. once one has these specifications it becomes theoretically possible to reapply the chance procedures to a new piece, that could have equally occurred to cage. the idea for nine was born: cage's composition plan should be adopted and i, personally submitting to his taste, accepted his authorship. as his posthumous assistant, i implemented his plan and wrote nine. |
1 nine - for john cage (2010) ................... 30´00´´ |
