Prendetela con le pinze, ma da circa un’ora (è l’1:30 del 27/09) sta girando una notizia secondo la quale Horatiu Radulescu, compositore rumeno, noto per i suoi lavori caratterizzati da una ricerca spettrale molto spinta e coraggiosamente priva di compromessi, sia deceduto, a soli 66 anni, a Parigi, dove aveva vissuto a lungo.
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La notizia sembra confermata; se ne parla su NetNewMusic. Tristemente, il 90% degli spettralisti è scomparso prima che il 10% del mondo si sia accorto della loro esistenza.
- Horaţiu Rădulescu – Capricorn’s Nostalgic Crickets, opus 16 no 2 (1980), per 7 flauti.
Note di programma in inglese:
7 flutes move along a “square well” of 96 sounds – an “infinite melody”, closed circle of “inharmonic” quarter-tones. Each of the 7 has a different start point: a canon which had already began since the sound-sources play continuously.
Each sound lasting ca 9 seconds (subjective time) is irregularly placed within a period of 11 second-long (objective time). Imagine a sphere with equidistant 96 meridians/feints through which irrupt 96 micro-music events. Due to their various consistency that implacable periodicity (the 11 second-pulse) will become imperceptible.
Four types of sound-production technique (“timbre-being”) activate the micro-spectrality of each sound:
- yellow tremolo (“morse” signals of different fingerings on a unique pitch)
- stable multiphonics
- unstable multiphonics, “overblowing producing “spectral thermometers”, multiphonics variably explicitated
- simultaneously singing and instrumental sound with flattertongue
The statistical reading of these 4 types of “timbre-being” creates a “directional random” evolving toward several “accidents of purity” (the 20th eruption : 6 yellow tremoli and l overblowing the 43rd eruption : no multiphonic (unique case) the 87th eruption : 6 sung flattertonguings and 1 yellow tremolo) and inscribing itself into a fusiformali macro-register trajectory. This resembles a natural phenomenon where the cause (sound – sources) and the effect (sound parameters) become very often undetectable, a “drunk organ” simulated by the seven flutes.