Claren: Potemkin 1: Baby Baby / Fehlstart (Detail) / Alkan / In der Hölle

Featuring

Teodoro Anzellotti
Enno Poppe
Ernst Surberg
Trio Recherche
ensemble mosaik
Sebastian Claren

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Claren's music aims to create 'organized confusion' by radically thwarting expectations raised in the opening bars of his compositions.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Claren's music reflects a constant alternation between continuity and discontinuity, using sophisticated montage techniques and various 'camera positions' translated into music.

Composer Biography

Sebastian Claren, the composer of the works on this album, studied composition with Walter Zimmermann in Berlin and Mathias Spahlinger in Freiburg.

Album & Artwork

This album is part of the 'EDITION ZEITGENÖSSISCHE MUSIK' record series, a project of the German Music Council.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Sebastian Claren's aesthetic is shaped by both a century of modern music and its predecessors, as well as by certain styles of pop music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Composer Sebastian Claren states that he does not want listeners to hear what he knows about music, but rather for his knowledge to be subsumed within the music itself.