Sextet (2016)
for clarinet, percussion, piano, guitar, violin, and violoncello
..‘on the earth’ already means ‘under the sky.’
Both of these also mean ‘remaining before the divinities’
and include a ‘belonging to one’s being with one another.’
This work consists of four material layers analogous to this image of dwelling. Through the course of the work, the various polyphonic interactions between these layers are explored. These layers are drawn from my experiences of Stirk Park in Kalamunda.
In this work, a trace of (or the waiting for) the divinities is expressed as the otherness of harmony: a multi-phonic dyad ‘announced’ by the clarinet, concluding the work whilst opening it anew.
..by a primal oneness the four — earth and sky, divinities and mortals — belong together in one.”
(Building, Dwelling, Thinking)
premiered by Curious Chamber Players
Dries Tack (clarinet), Martin Welander (percussion), and Anna Christensson (piano), Frederik Larsen (guiar), Karin Hellqvist (violin), My Hellgren (violoncello), Rei Munakata (conductor)
recorded live at the Bludenz tage zeitgemäßer Musik, November 20, 2016
