Earth Rooms

for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano
composed 1994-95; duration 16 minutes
commissioned by Jutland Ensemble
world premiere Danish Broadcasting Corporation 1995
Jutland Ensemble; Henrik Vagn Christensen – conductor

A study of phrase and gesture. The timbrical shadings of a phrase makes a dilitation of time, its suspension, and finally its dissolution into a focal point of minute detail. Short sequences, violent and dry, contract the musical material into temporary standstills, whereafter the music is loosened up, much like an aquarelle copy of the original. In the last section grids are imposed on material and form, at the same time blurring the outlines and giving identity to the gesture.

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