sound expanse

Tomorrow (Sunday) at 8:03 Berlin time, there will be a second radio broadcast of music from this year's MaerzMusik festival. The broadcast will open with Berio's SOLO for trombone and orchestra. I am most interested to hear the world premiere of Mark Andre's complete orchestral cycle, "... auf ... " I-III. I heard "... auf ... " III at the 2007 Donaueschinger Musiktage, and bought the recording of it when I was back there the following year. I latch onto different aspects of the piece each time I hear it, and it never fails to fascinate me. You can get some taste of it through this video clip, whether or not you understand German.

Mark Andre - "...auf..." III from Felix 1982 on Vimeo.

The other composer on tomorrow's broadcast whose work I want to know better is Petros Ovsepyan. His use of silence, as well as aspects of sound production that are usually ignored, is quite committed and compelling. You can get a good sense of his approach in the intro page video and further content of his website.

Though many of the programs on Deutschlandradio Kultur are available on-demand, the MaerzMusik broadcast from Tuesday was only available through a live stream. It looks like that will also be the case with Sunday's broadcast. I'm going to hook up my best headphones--this music will benefit from that kind of close listening.