Composer Hannes Kerschbaumer states, "I just can't write sequences of pitches," indicating his focus on the audible sonic surface rather than conveying systems or ideas.
Performer Biography
The Arditti Quartet, featured on this album, has had several hundred string quartets and other chamber works written for them since their founding in 1974, leaving a permanent mark on 20th-century repertoire.
Performer Biography
Krassimir Sterev, the accordionist on this album, has had many new pieces written for him by composers such as Bernhard Lang, Olga Neuwirth, and Hannes Kerschbaumer, which he then premiered.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Hannes Kerschbaumer refers to his approach as "bionic thinking," a technique of mimicry that transfers natural phenomena to music without necessarily understanding their underlying function.
Compositional Technique
Hannes Kerschbaumer's music often incorporates "noise-objects" like ceramic and glass shards, Styrofoam, and sandpaper, treating these resonant raw materials with the same detail as traditional instruments.
Composer Biography
Hannes Kerschbaumer, born in 1981 in Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy, studied composition with Gerd Kühr, Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer, and Georg Friedrich Haas.
Compositional Technique
In his work "schraffur," Hannes Kerschbaumer uses a "distortion-notation" that summarizes parameters like bow, air, and lip pressure into degrees of distortion, altering instrumental sounds to obscure their traditional identity.
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