New Music By Karlheinz Essl

Performed at MUMOK (Vienna) on Jan 21st, 2018. Bulenda Felicia, Krenn Elisabeth, Reis Pedro, Wurzer Edeltraud: clarinets Four clarinets are positioned in the corner points of a virtual square around the audience. The score is organized in a sort of chess board with 7x7 fields. Each field contains a musical phrase which duration is left to the discretion of the player. After finishing a phrase, the player makes a pause of an undefined length. Then he proceeds to the next motif and so on. Each musician begins in one of the four corner fields of the grid. The entrance of the players is staggered. Player 1 starts with his phrase. When the maximum of the crescendo is reached, the second player enters, then the third and finally the forth. Each player takes an individual path through the grid following the directions of the respective arrows. Each path describes a spiral that finally ends in the center field...