Instrumentation: for clarinet and seven soloists

Texts: R. Laing

Text: R. Laing.

Duration: 10' 00"
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Instrumentation: for between two and four instruments

Duration: 20' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano and band

Duration: 11' 00"
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Instrumentation: for band, sounds, gestures and lights

In collaboration with Ch. Périat.

Duration: 40' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 17' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 4' 00"
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Instrumentation: for band

Duration: 8' 00"
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Instrumentation: for big-band

Duration: 18' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 4' 00"
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Instrumentation: for nine instruments

Duration: 10' 00"
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Instrumentation: for jazz big band (version for pf, cl and vcl)

Duration: 4' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 11 instruments

Part of the Baroque concert.

Duration: 15' 00"
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Instrumentation: for tuba solo

A plausible portrait of the tuba player in his solitude.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for piano, tuba and percussion

Duration: 45' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice, speaker and 3 jazz soloists and ensemble (retired)

Texts: Alejo Carpentier

Duration: 50' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano and voice

Duration: 30' 00"
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Instrumentation: for four-handed piano

Duration: 2' 00"
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Instrumentation: for solo voice

Texts: Euripides, Heiner Müller, Pier Paolo Pasolini

What is stronger than to see this woman, Medea, who progressively propagates and accomplishes her own myth?

Duration: 30' 00"

CHF: 28.20

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 2' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice, two pianos and violoncello

Texts: William Blake

Written for an improviser/reader, these pieces attempt to recreate a fantasy world in honour of some of William Blake's poems.

Duration: 45' 00"

CHF: 48.00

Instrumentation: for seven pianos

Duration: 10' 00"
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Instrumentation: for solo voices

Texts: Alltags- Werbe- Mediensprache

The performance of a singer who tries in vain to suppress her fit of giggles.Sponsored by the SME Lucerne.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Instrumentation: for band

Duration: 6' 00"
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Instrumentation: for two pianos

Duration: 6' 00"
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Instrumentation: for two pianos

Duration: 3' 00"
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Instrumentation: for band

Duration: 20' 00"
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Instrumentation: for four electronic organs and seven brass (two horns, two trumpets, two trombones and a tuba)

A topsy-turvy tuba concerto. Very much indebted to African music whose concept of rhythm and time is well suited here.

Duration: 25' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice and percussion

Collaborator: Vincent Barras.

Duration: 4' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice and keyboards

Collaboration: Vincent Barras.

Duration: 5' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice and keyboards

Collaboration: Vincent Barras.

Duration: 8' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice and amplification

Texts: R. Juaroz

Text: R. Juaroz.

Duration: 12' 00"
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Instrumentation: for flute and clarinet

"Rhythm, is in fact, the only art or system in which the various energies can be ordered and sustained. The basis of a vital and psychological dynamic is rhythm." (G. Bachelard).

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 25.80

Instrumentation: for eight voices and two pianos

Texts: Roberto Juarroz

The electric pianos remind one of toy pianos that grew too fast. The words are sonorous, the lists long and dense.

Duration: 42' 00"

CHF: 57.30

Instrumentation: for organ

This piece is concerned with the moment. It is a contest in which the contestants are missing.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 25.30

Instrumentation: for flute and piano

This piece stages its own silence, even the fragile and dramatic silence that emerges only after the final tone has sounded.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 19.80

Instrumentation: for six-handed piano

Three etudes for improvisation

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 20' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice, bass clarinet and percussion

Duration: 12' 00"
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Instrumentation: for bass clarinet

Duration: 5' 00"
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Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin and violoncello

Duration: 12' 00"
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Opera

Instrumentation: for orchestra, jazz trio, soloists and choir

Texts: Francesco Micieli

Text: Francesco Micieli.

Duration: 45' 00"
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Instrumentation: for three percussionists

This piece is based around numerous hand playing techniques (from the most common gestures to the orthodox playing techniques of the darbuka). It develops theatrically according to the gestures of each performer.
Sponsored by the SME Lucerne.


Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 28.20

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, vioncello, two marimbas and imrovised piano

Dialectic between the pianist and ensemble involving the discovery of the unanticipated improvised moment within the notated musical gestures.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 43.30

Instrumentation: for speaker, three female voices, tuba, accordion, two pianos and choir

Texts: Jacques Roman

The content of the piece has a diffused feeling, a difficult to describe situation summed up excellently with a short sentence by B. Requichot: "je ne sais pas c'qui m'quoi."

CHF: 161.20

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, horn, trombone and four-handed piano

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 37.80

Instrumentation: for solo voice

Duration: 35' 00"
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Instrumentation: for three percussionists

Duration: 35' 00"
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Instrumentation: for big band

Composition in cooperation with Hans Koch

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Instrumentation: for piano, painting and balloons (two performers)

Texts: Philippe Deléglise

With Philippe Deléglise.

Duration: 40' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano, balloons and electronic apparatus

Re-adaptation of the original version.

Duration: 45' 00"
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Instrumentation: for a minimum of 4 instruments

Duration: 10' 00"-20' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice, flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano

Texts: Jacques Roman

Three main 'characters'. A text by Jacques Roman based on African rhythm organisation and inspired by the solo fragments of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 51.00

Instrumentation: for voice and seven accordions

Duration: 30' 00"
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Instrumentation: for sequencer (or nine pianos)

Duration: 4' 00"
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Instrumentation: for electronic tape

With Nancy Ypsilantis.

Duration: 60' 00"
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Instrumentation: for choir

Texts: Henri Calet

A tribute to Henri Calet in the form of numbers and letters. Eight voices.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 32.40

Instrumentation: for marimba solo

A meeting of truly ancient sounds, whose strength lies in its evocation through the delicacy of its figures. The piece reveals only slightly, the secrets hidden in the wood of the marimba.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for voice and manual harmonium

Texts: J. Probst

Text: J. Probst.

Duration: 30' 00"
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Instrumentation: for two percussionists, one flutist 'electronic', one pianist, a comedian and twenty children

Duration: 65' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice solo

Texts: Subcommandante Marcos, Frida Kahlo

A female voice appears alone on stage. It speaks of the journey from the personal to the universal, a journey brimming with sense and dramatic tension, a journey which connects the singularity of the body with the multitude of the myth in dependance of the humanity of a mysticised being - simply our world.

Duration: 58' 00"

CHF: 46.80

Instrumentation: for speaker, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello

Texts: Wilhelm Busch

Musical version of the adventures of those two likeable rascals...

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 40.20

Instrumentation: for six-handed piano

Duration: 1' 00"
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Instrumentation: for four-handed piano

Duration: 5' 00"
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Instrumentation: for two male voices, one female voice, one indian harmonium and live electronics

Texts: Théodore Flournoy

"From India to the planet Mars" by Th. Flournoy.

Duration: 50' 00"
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Instrumentation: for recitiative, violin, flute and harmonium

Texts: Maurice Chappaz

Text: Maurice Chappaz.

Duration: 57' 00"
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Instrumentation: for alto saxophone, marimba and piano

Duration: 3' 00"
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Instrumentation: for two female voices, flute (bass and contrabass), percussion, paino with metronome, loud speakers

Texts: Yaëlle Torelle

Text: Yaëlle Torelle.

Duration: 17' 00"
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Instrumentation: for marimba and loud speakers

Duration: 10' 00"
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Sound installation

Instrumentation: for 320 loud speakers

Duration: var.
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Instrumentation: three spoken voices

Texts: John Ronald Raul Tolkien

Poetic route for three voices - and in the language of fairies which derives from the language of nature. Homage to John Ronald Raul Tolkien's love of language.

CHF: 63.60

Instrumentation: for double-bass

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 25.20

Instrumentation: for piano solo

Duration: 51' 00"
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Instrumentation: for singing, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and percussion

Texts: José Flore Tappy

Text: José Flore Tappy.

Duration: 43' 00"
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Instrumentation: for four guitars

Duration: 5' 00"
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Instrumentation: for spoken voice, live electronic and loud speakers

Texts: Sylviane Dupuis

Text: Sylviane Dupuis.

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Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello and piano

Duration: 7' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 8 pianos

Duration: 53' 00"
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Instrumentation: for ensemble and loud speakers

Duration: 35' 00"
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Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 4' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 amplified voices

Duration: 6' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 amplified voices

Duration: 7' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 amplified voices

Duration: 4' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 amplified voices

Duration: 5' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano solo (prepared)

Duration: 52' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 amplified voices

Duration: 8' 00"
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Instrumentation: for fanfare, choir and children's choir

Duration: 5' 00"
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Music for dance

Instrumentation: for fixed sounds

Duration: 30' 00"
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Instrumentation: for two pianos

Duration: 9' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 pianos

Duration: 6' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 pianos

Duration: 6' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 pianos

Duration: 8' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 pianos

Duration: 8' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 pianos

Duration: 12' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 pianos

Duration: 7' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 amplified voices

Duration: 11' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 amplified voices

Duration: 2' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 2 amplified voices

Duration: 4' 00"
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Instrumentation: for sound accompaniment/computer

Duration: 36' 00"
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Opera

Instrumentation: for voice, accordion, clarinet, violin, violoncello, trumpet, vibraphone and fixed sounds

Texts: Nicolas E. Ryhiner

"Black Tell": Collaboration with Fortunat Frölich, Sergio Menozzi, Daniel Weissberg, Charles Uzor.

Duration: 17' 00"
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Phonetic actions

Instrumentation: for three speaking voices, contrabass flute, live electronics and movements

Duration: 60' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 4-handed piano

Duration: 5' 00"
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Sound installation

Instrumentation: for loud speakers and data system

Duration: 15h 00"
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Instrumentation: for two speaking voices

Collaboration: Vincent Barras.

Duration: 30' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice and piano

Duration: 22' 00"
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Music for dance

Instrumentation: for fixed sounds

Duration: 30' 00"
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Instrumentation: for string orchestra

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 39.00

Instrumentation: for 4 instruments

Duration: 60' 00"

CHF: 31.80

Sound installation

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Instrumentation: Sound installation

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Instrumentation: for a group of twenty of children and fixed sounds

Duration: 40' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 7 instruments

Graphic score.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 37.20

Radio play / environmental sound

Instrumentation: for 9 performers

Duration: 62' 00"
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Instrumentation: for 11 instruments

Graphic score.

Duration: 53' 00"
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Instrumentation: for fixed sounds and electronic apparatus

Duration: 30' 00"
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Instrumentation: for ssx, tsx, piano and contrabass

Duration: 69' 00"
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Instrumentation: for eight spoken voices

Duration: 9' 00"
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Instrumentation: for ssx, tsx, piano and contrabass

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Instrumentation: for two speaking voices

Collaboration: Vincent Barras.

Duration: 40' 00"
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Electroacoustic improvisation

Instrumentation: for bass clarinet, sax, piano, synthesizer, electronics

Duration: 52' 00"
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Instrumentation: for reed organ

Duration: 25' 00"
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Instrumentation: for violin and guitar

Duration: 15' 00"
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Instrumentation: for jazz trio (sx, pf, db)

Duration: 71' 00"
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Instrumentation: for four violoncellos, four percussion instruments and fixed sounds

Duration: 45' 00"
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Instrumentation: foe 3 voices, clarinet, 2 sax, viola, piano, percussion, synth and electronics

Duration: 50' 00"
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Instrumentation: for sax, accordion, 2 pianos and viola

Duration: 25' 00"
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Instrumentation: for saxophone, piano, voice, percussion, violoncello and synthesizer

Duration: 60' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice, soprano sax, tenor sax, piano, percussion, synthesizer and violoncello

Duration: 50' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice, soprano sax, tenor sax, piano, percussion, synthesizer and violoncello

Duration: 50' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice and ensemble

Texts: Alexander Puschkin, Sandor Petöfi, Joseph von Eichendorff, Adalbert von Chamisso, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lou Andreas-Salome

Before becoming a philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche was an improvisor and composer. As an adolescent, he was said to have been improvising for hours on the piano and even in his later years, when his disease had already severely damaged his brain, he was still capable of playing the music of his time perfectly.
A selection of lieder, originally set for voice and piano, has been transposed in a version for voice (Dorothea Schürch) and ensemble (the musicians of the 6ix and the Fanfareduloup Orchestra).
Except for "Gebet an das Leben", written in 1882 and based on a text by Lou Andreas-Salomé, all his other lieder were early works written between 1862 and 1865, when Nietzsche was between 18 and 21 years old.
The switch to music was based on various axes of influence. First and foremost was Nietzsche's youthful energy, which is present in his lieder. Each acoustic moment is important and virtually autonomous: the sound of the sung text, the sound of the piano accompaniment or the commentary. The philosopher favours the instant perception in opposition to a bigger form, which would certainly be less adequate at bringing us into direct contact with the flow of time. In The Will to Power he writes: "We are not subtle enough to perceive the probably absolute flow of becoming; the permanent exists only thanks to our coarse organs which summarize things and reduce them to common levels, when in fact nothing exists in that form. The tree is at each instant a new thing; we assert form because we do not grasp the subtlety of an absolute moment."
To write a composition like Flash-Songs for simultaneously interpreting and improvising musicians, means to reconnect and amplify the movement of complementarity between performance and composition, so uniquely present in young Nietzsche's lieder. The score of Flash-Songs is thus organised around a time line, which initially is not entirely fixed, but allows the performers to play according to their skills of improvisation within given sound fields thus evoking a tonal momentum just like the young improvisor and composer Nietzsche with regard to his future Lieder.
The poems were selected to penetrate the harmonic and rhythmic framework of the Nietschean composition in order to activate a contemporary interpretation focusing on a acoustic reverberation of the phonemes throughout the instrumental ensemble. Like an attempt to express in a diffusive and equivocal manner the phonetic structure of speech.
Another influence is the melodies themselves: since the moment they were written down, they progressivley stretched in time until reaching us. There was no transport from the past into the present. There was extension, propagation without reverberation and the sound continued to uncoil its extension until today. Flash-Songs is here to collect these melodic extensions, amongst which the phrases were stretched, the words were distended and the phonemes were deployed all around Nietzsche's sound. And finally there is the historic duo voice and piano, a musical form that here is simultaneously present and absent. As Flash-Song's central point of intersection, it becomes the link between the romantic gesture and anchorage in the present and the place to question this link, penetrated by textual extensions, by streaming piano quotations taken from the lieder recording by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann, by using vocal filters or once again by the constant reconsideration of the voice and piano.

Duration: 45' 00"
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Instrumentation: for soprano sax, tenor sax, piano and double bass

Further Nearness - Northrope - Welchfingar - Mantrappe.

Duration: 67' 00"
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Instrumentation: Klavier und Stimme

Duration: 40' 00"

CHF: 13.20

Instrumentation: für Trio und Orchester

Duration: 20' 20"

CHF: 18.70