ZeitRäume/Fragmente – 3 Skizzen für Violoncello solo

ZeitRäume/Fragmente - Three Sketches for Solo Cello features two contrary perspectives.

The first sketch adopts a retrospective angle thereby concerning itself with the bygone, time-fragments. Materials and techniques - idioms of an avant-garde that is coming to an end - accumulate to form a sequence of finite spaces; repeatedly chafing against each other they typify immanent radicalized alternate worlds that grapple with historic fixtures (in the form of quotations).

In contrast, the second and third sketches provide a first insight - ‘at the ends of fruitful land’  - into a gradually opening space whose potentialities, while still diffuse, begin to emerge on the horizon.
Due to the exclusive use of natural harmonics there a complex harmonicity is carefully anticipated whose natural purity and micro-spherical differentiation inevitably eludes any quantifying lattice models such as the equal-tempered twelve-tone system.

Thus, this piece marks a central turning point within my compositional oeuvre:
- ZeitRäume/Fragmente, an attempt to part with the old and welcome the new -