Freeze!
for musicians with video
Program notes
”Freeze” deals with movement, time, reaction and rituals. As a starting point for the piece, I used several videos and scenes from samurai cinema, whose flowing movement and rhythm fascinated me. While composing I asked myself, how could material from other medium transfer into music?
The person appearing on the video is a Japanese martial artist and film choreographer Yoshio Sugino, who was working on films like Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.
Year
2019/2021
Duration
8’30”
First performance (trio version)
ensemble recherche [GER]
17.4.2019, Helsinki, Finland
Instrumentation (trio version)
flute, bass clarinet & violoncello [+video]
First performance (ensemble version)
latenz ensemble [SUI]
Friederike Scheunchen, conductor @ impuls-festival, Graz [AU]
Instrumentation (ensemble version)
fl, bcl, btrb, perc, vln, vla, vlc [+video]