This concert is a great context in which to get to know Katharina's music – much of her work (for acoustic and electronic mediums) manifests in an interdisciplinary context and is bound to confront traditional performance practice in terms of how sound is produced, heard and seen. The work is often deeply involved with electro-acoustic and acousmatic technologies in which time, sound, and space are reshaped by the acoustic, electronic and human actions.
Interestingly, in the work presented on DISPLACER is an acoustic one, the only purely acoustic work on the program. And yet, the problematic of space, (dis)location, and motion remain at its core. The piece is for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion, and attaches to our theme of displacement through transformations and context shifting of small motivic collections.
Of the work, Katharina writes
"scatter is movement - a chase, a pursuit, a run in all directions, regrouping at times, then falling apart again, a split, splinters or sparks, disperse or dissolve… these moments of agitation are depicted in three different segments that overlap and share similar material in ever-changing configurations. The listener could imagine looking through a kaleidoscope, turning and shaking the tube at various speeds, to observe the “action-patterns” collapse and reassemble to new constellations and images. It is this interplay of contrasting formations that split up to the very high or to the very low and rumbling register, that temporally press ahead or stutteringly pull back the flow which ultimately drive the music forward and reinforce the scattered evolution of the piece."scatter 2.0 has been released on HatHut Records, Switzerland this March 2011 on the "ensemble für neue musik zürich" release, entitled "Women Composers I."
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