1/10/2

for woodwind and string quintet (1,1,1,1/1,0,0,0/0/1,1,1,1,1)
composed 1984, rev 1988; duration 16 minutes
world premiere Esbjerg (Denmark) 1985
Esbjerg Ensemble; Svend Aaquist Johansen – conductor

A kind of ‘choreographic framework in space’ was created for this piece. The first draft was used to trace the musical material, where an undulating, constant state of flux through suspense and contradictory states was sought for. Chords change into huge harmonic masses, and the images which underlie the creative process were of spiral forms, clocks, plants, and twisted layers of sediments. At the same time concluding and changing direction, the piece finally moves towards its destruction in a general feeling of vertigo through disjointed rhythms and torn gestures.

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