Name: 'In Rebellion Of Time' - Galina Juritz performed by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet by Galina Juritz
Duration: 3 min 50 s
Description: This piece was performed as part of the Sterkfontein Composers Seminar Workshop and later at the Purpur Music Festival, where we had the privilege of working with the incredible Stockholm Saxophone Quartet.

performed by the ligeti quartet (11/05/2021) 

cisterns in memory 
rivers in memory
pools in memory 
always water in memory 
wind in memory 
whispering in memory
- Alejandra Pizarnik, Uncollected Poems (1962-1972)

Pizarnik’s poem left a deep impression on me upon my first reading. Its simplistic, serene atmosphere projected delicate images of water and air clouded by memory into my head. Each miniature of ‘blank slate’ illustrates a line from this poem, attempting to depict its nature through a lens of fuzzy reminiscence.

‘cisterns in memory’ is inspired by the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul. Built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, it is a 9800 square metre underground construction that was used to store and distil rainwater for the Great Palace of Constantinople. Despite its practical purpose, it has an almost church-like quality, and inside its walls it stores two Medusa heads, and a column engraved with hen’s eyes, supposedly erected to memorialise the lives of the slaves who died in the cistern’s construction. This miniature is distant, with slightly warped, echoing, open intervals, illustrating the faint memory of an ancient structure.

‘rivers in memory’ is slightly more literal in its depiction. When examining river sounds, I was fascinated by the sound’s sharpness. Rather than being fluid, the sound of a river is bitty and angular; water molecules crashing and clunking against eachn other at high speeds. In this miniature, I fuse the more literal river sound (pizzicato viola and cello) with the sound in our perceptions (the more free-flowing violins).

‘pools in memory’ uses a ‘pool’ of five pitches. These are the only notes used in the miniature. The music does not progress, modify, or change itself in any way. It is still, unchanging, and without journey. It is simply a pool.

‘always water in memory’ creates a coalescence of the previous three miniatures and focuses on the depiction of ‘memory’. Memory is deeply personal and created through our own perceptions of our experiences. It is not a constant: things get jumbled, our perception changes, there is little sense of time, and just as easily as they are created, memories are deleted. The miniature is disorganised and disorderly, and rather than specific details of water being played in perfect harmony, it attempts to remember the essence of what water is – much like how we remember our own experiences.

‘wind in memory’ and ‘whispering in memory’ both focus less on the innate musical material and more-so on creating a simplistic sound world to allow space for reflection; for memory.

blank slate (all movements)

The incantatory slow movement of Hendrik Hofmeyr's Clarinet Sonata is in ternary form. The A section is based on a widely arched theme announced by the clarinet. The brief middle section (Poco più mosso) is more expressive in character and ends with a canonic cadenza for the two instruments, which leads to an abbreviated recapitulation of the A section, but now with canonic imitation by the piano. In the coda elements of both themes are fused into a new melody, which is again echoed by the piano.

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i / m / w / m

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This piece was performed as part of the Sterkfontein Composers Seminar Workshop and later at the Purpur Music Festival, where we had the privilege of working with the incredible Stockholm Saxophone Quartet.

'In Rebellion Of Time' - Galina Juritz performed by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet

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