Commissioned and performed by Ensemble Ultima Rara

Ivana Zahirovic - flute
Robert Mallisch - guitar
Patrick Stapleton - drums/percussion

Premiere 2008, Würzburg, Flammabis Musiktage

Program Note
kühl blau was created in the summer of 2007 in my apartment in Berlin's Chamisso Kietz. For a while I brooded over the composition daily, patiently waiting for ideas. If you wait long enough, any ideas will eventually pop up. If you wait even longer, you finally decide for something; this will give you the next idea, and so on. This may well be a workable method for developing a composition, almost like a solo improvisation in slow motion. At the end of this process was the present piece.
Maybe the atmosphere and mood at my place has influenced the creative process (kiosk, children's playground, café, little cars, swifts, organic market on weekends). The piece is meant to express a more loose, relaxed, almost casual, playful way.

kühl blau - Ensemble Ultima Rara

Sehnsuchtsraum II

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Vormaks

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Composed and performed by DD in Paris, France Friday 7th November 2020
Two pianos
Upright bass (pizz and bowed cadenza) 
Muted piano basses (mallets)
Treated soundscape

Photo by Ricardo Gomez



For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0462: Vade in Pace
Step 1: Consider the way pace (tempo, speed) is experienced, represented, and accomplished in music.
Step 2: Consider the way stasis is experienced, represented, and accomplished in music.
Step 3: Write a short piece of music that gets slower and slower as it proceeds. If possible, have it end with a sense of outright stasis. Fading out is fine, too, certainly.

This was one of the most inspiring juntos and I’m happier than usual with my track (perhaps because I am sort of unemployed lately and I’m taking my time for this endeavours, more than I usually can)
I had this little melody I wrote last week, it was a slow 30 seconds little thing for classical piano I kept aside to develop someday.
As for the challenge prompt I tried to make it fast and then slow down to the initial slow tempo and beyond, almost to zero (stasis)
But as much as I liked the slowing down I didn’t feel the fast start suited the music so I went for a symmetrical structure slow-accelerando-fast-rallentando-slow-stasis(coda)
I performed two piano parts, an upright bass and a muted piano basses. Added some granulated soundscapes from the different tracks treated thought several plugins and experimented with that to create textures.
The rest is just reverbs and playing around with tempo, something I really cherish.

Two Moments Of Stasis (disquiet0462)

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