Dominik Susteck - Touching Universes (2022) [Official Digital Download]

MACH (DO) is the title of a cycle of pieces for solo instruments which Eres Holz began in 2011 with a virtuoso trumpet solo and which now comprises nine pieces, with live electronics added since the clarinet piece of 2016. MACH! is both an exhortation and an homage to the physicist Ernst Mach. The unit of measurement that bears the latter’s name is still used to indicate the speed of supersonic aircraft – a suggestion of the difficulty of the pieces. MACH, as written in the score of the organ piece, is “a kind of invitation to do that which is not trivial”.

All the pieces in the cycle draw from a repertoire of virtuoso techniques and expressive figures specific to the respective instruments which have developed over the course of musical history. The harp, for example, features deep, bell-like bass tones and glittering arpeggios, the cello has double stops signifying the greatest intensity, and the accordion part is written in a full-bodied playing style comparable to the sound of an organ. The electronics initially amplify the sound – for example through reverberation effects and subtle changes of colour – but then increasingly transform the sound production. We still hear the typical features of each instrument’s language, but their intensity is now heightened to the ecstatic, the instruments speaking in foreign tongues, as it were. The individual, imprisoned in himself, seeks to go outside himself by all possible means, to communicate himself to the world. It is, as the composer puts it, “about communication, about the search for empathy”, about “overcoming loneliness”, somehow getting through to the outside world, even through “a scream” if necessary.

TRACKLIST

1. Dominik Susteck - Prolog [Live]
2. Dominik Susteck - I-a [Live]
3. Dominik Susteck - II-a [Live]
4. Dominik Susteck - III-a [Live]
5. Dominik Susteck - IV [Live]
6. Dominik Susteck - III-b [Live]
7. Dominik Susteck - I-b [Live]
8. Dominik Susteck - II-b [Live]
9. Dominik Susteck - Epilog [Live]
10. Anna Viechtl - I. Die Resonanz ist kein Echo des Selbst. Ihr wohnt die Dimension des Anderen inne. Sie bedeutet Zusammenklang
11. Anna Viechtl - II. Die Wiederholung ist ein unzerschleißbares Kleid, das fest und doch zart anschließt, weder drückt noch schlottert
12. Anna Viechtl - III. Apprendre par cœur. Allein Wiederholungen erreichen offenbar das Herz
13. Anna Viechtl - IV. Nur ein kontemplatives Verweilen ist fähig zum Schluss
14. Zoé Cartier - I. Die Tür zum Glück, zum Heil, zur Rettung, zur Selbstverwirklichung geht nach außen auf
15. Zoé Cartier - II. Um ein Echo zu bekommen, muß man einen leeren Raum vor sich haben
16. Zoé Cartier - III. Nur wer in Angst war, findet Ruhe
17. Zoé Cartier - IV. Es braucht mehr Mut, zu vergessen, als sich zu erinnern
18. Silke Lange - I. Sehr schnell, mit Leidenschaft
19. Silke Lange - II. Mysteriös, sphärisch
20. Asasello Quartett - I. —
21. Asasello Quartett - II. —
22. Asasello Quartett - III. —
23. Asasello Quartett - IV. —
24. Asasello Quartett - V. —
25. Claudia von Hasselt - I. Eine frau will ich mir nehmen
26. Claudia von Hasselt - II. Diese dünste die nach mutter riechen
27. Claudia von Hasselt - III. Ah!
28. Ensemble Aventure - I. Archaisch, geheimnisvoll
29. Ensemble Aventure - II. Tänzerisch, mit Fantasie
30. Ensemble Aventure - III. Magisch
31. Ensemble Aventure - Touching Universes and Ends



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