Collapsing Pater Noster
Ensemble
[11 Musicians]
Oboe
English Horn
Trumpet in c
Bass Trombone
Percussion:
Timpani (I) & Tam (middle)
Harp
Tuning & retuning in score
Celesta
Violin I
Violin II
Cello
Double bass
Program note
This piece of music tries, in one sense, to “expose tableaus of contrasting textures”, ”explore spatial relations by alternate layouts” and ”see musical situations from different perspectives”. All at once. Very much.
Simultaneously, one could say that it also is “held together by the grid of vertical time-coordination”, and that it “was written at three inspirational points in time”.
But that’s just wishful thinking. Or eventually pure nonsense. These text fragments were snitched from a program book from a famous contemporary music festival in Scandinavia.
Originally, this was my collapsing, vocal version of Pater Noster for baritone and a small chamber ensemble. Nowadays, it’s revised and arranged for a larger ensemble, but still divided up in seven chapters and an epilogue. The original Pater Noster wanted to refer to the number of liturgy of the hours, the collapsed version is just based on a strong feeling of Christianity as a hysterical neurosis.
Duration
7:30 minutes