Informationen zu "Gary Carpenter, Theatre Fountain for Wind Band Stimmensatz"
Verlag: Camden Music
Verlagsnummer: CAMDEN052
EAN: 9790570340521
ISMN: M-57034-052-1
Beschreibung
Theatre Fountain (Theaterbrunnen 1974) is a kinetic fountain by Jean
Tinguely. It stands outside the Opera House in Basel, Switzerland. I remember
seeing it twice, once in the spring when it was in full flow and once in
winter when icicles had contributed their own sculptural grandeur to the work
but had also slowed down or stopped most of the moving parts. I was taken
with idea of a mechanical work of art first moving and then gradually frozen
in time and space. As in much of his work, Tinguely uses familiar objects in
unfamiliar contexts. I referenced this by building on wholly triadic and
tonal material undermined by wayward juxtaposition and in the same way that
the fountain consists of 'mobiles', my piece rotates myriad patterns, some of
considerable duration and some very short and fleeting. Despite a sense of
acceleration towards the end of the piece, the metronome marks actually get
fractionally slower as the piece progresses - as if the compositional
mechanisms are themselves freezing. A wandering tenor saxophone surveys the
static (frozen) middle section. The percussion, most of which comprises
'found objects', is a nod to those non-aquatic Tinguely sculptures that make
a lot of noise, move a lot, but go nowhere! - Gary Carpenter
