Dufourt: L'Afrique d'après Tiepolo & L'Asie d'après Tiepolo

Featuring

Jean-Pierre Collot
ensemble recherche
Hugues Dufourt

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Composition History

Hugues Dufourt's works, L'Afrique d'après Tiepolo and L'Asie d'après Tiepolo, were commissioned by WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln) and ensemble recherche, with support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and SACEM.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Hugues Dufourt views Tiepolo's fresco 'L'Asie' as a "premature manifesto of the music of our times," characterized by a world without colors but with accelerated expressivity.

Compositional Technique

Dufourt's compositional approach involves decoupling pitch treatment from the overtone spectrum, aiming for chords that merely 'reminisce' about inharmonic spectra rather than directly transferring them.

Recording & Production

This album is a co-production between Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR) and KAIROS Music production, recorded in Köln (Cologne) in December 2009.

Performer Biography

ensemble recherche, the ensemble performing on this album, is a distinguished contemporary music group that has premiered over 400 works since its founding in 1985.

Composer Biography

Hugues Dufourt, a French composer and philosopher, coined the term 'musique spectrale' in 1979 but later protested against its purely 'harmonic' interpretation.

Compositional Technique

Dufourt's music often features a slow differentiation of an overarching 'structural sound,' creating a texture that tears apart and re-forms, with a unified note preventing disintegration.