Label: Sub Rosa

待望の第三弾がリリース!!作曲をHenri Pousseur、Frederic Rzewskiに師事、ベルギーの作曲家にしてバイオリニスト、そして何より同Sub Rosaが2011年に出版したアール・ブリュットの作家アドルフ・ヴェルフリの"絵画に描かれた楽譜"演奏で知られるBaudouin de Jaer。このレーベルがシリーズで出版している、朝鮮の伝統楽器"コムンゴ"のコンポーザーとしてのシリーズ作品第三弾が登場。このユニークな楽器の根底にある、これまでに聞いた事の無い多くの可能性を示す2CDとなっており、太い音色ながら繊細なイメージを紡いだり、また難解な幾何学的構造を披露したりと、全5パート通して非常にスリリングな進行が続きます。16ページブックレット付き。







2CD + 16 page booklet

Five Traces is a wordless opera in three acts.
Its sound includes words and images. The notes must spea...
This wordless opera is certainly my most daring experiment with text in sound.

Over the ten years I spent discovering the majestic Geomungo, the six-string Korean bass zither played with a suldae plectrum, working on Héros de la pensée (2012/vol I) gave soft, poetic, melodious and appeasing sounds. Some of my studies continued the reduction process I had started for the piano and the violin (and then for the Gayageum), in the compositions I wrote between 1986 and 2023, attempts at extreme reducing and simplifying down to lines (vol I), music stated on one and single note (with exceptions). Lines allows the interpreter to express themselves within the scope of rhythm, nuance, vibratos, stresses and attacks, and to show the many unheard orchestral possibilities at the root of this unique instrument. In stark contrast,Chanson cubique (vol II) or Trace III include moments with an excessive variety of notes driving the instrument into a corner. With the warm timbres of the recordings featuring on the first two cd volumes, the listener is an accomplice to the interpreter, standing in the wings while they rub strings on fret, prepare their fingers and release the strings, tune the instrument while playing, etc. On the other hand, Traces (once every five of them have been listened to) offers a more panoramic view, a look at the geometric structures of the compositions. Vol I was my doorway to the geomungo, while the compositions gathered in vol IIwere explorations (experiments, studies) with a more technical aspect, in preparation for the writing of Five Traces
Baudouin De Jaer