Solo

SCHATTIERUNGEN

I composed this piece for the occasion to play a solo concert at La Chapelle du Grand Hospice in Brussels. A place with a uniquely reverberant acoustic which demands a very minimalistic way of playing.
Schattierungen means shades - different shades of a single color. In this composition my basic color is air sounds. Air sounds cover a wide spectrum of frequencies. By intensifying some of these frequencies and filtering out others I am creating a relief within this color. A few month after the concert, while visiting a Marc Rothko retrospective in Paris, I had the impression that I could hear my music in his paintings. Where I used sound colors, he used visual colors.

Recorded live on October 3rd 2023 at the Chapelle du Grand Hospice, Bruxelles.