Steffen Schorn (DE) – The Mad Code
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Download: Steffen Schorn (DE) – „The Mad Code“ – Susanne Kessel, Klavier
Steffen Schorn über sein piano piece „The Mad Code“:
„The piece rushes through a series of paradox emotional episodes: Fury, pride, innocent joy, sudden flashes of thoughts, crystal clear inner silence…
Inspired by a concert of Beethoven in Vienna after a several fruitful year, that is said to be a „desaster“ because of „mammoth“ programming – L.v. Beethoven had put all his new compositions in one orchestral concert preceded by his boundless improvisations on the piano – I have tried to put an extremely condensed collection of structured material of compositional ideas in a very short piece… and failed…
The 13+2 chords at the beginning represent the complementary pentatonics of 13 different non-symmetrical master scales (9-tone-modes) in a position of self-similar resonance, opposed to pure chords of C major 7, which appear horizontally and vertically in different transpositions throughout the piece.. tactile rhythmic percussion patterns… fast rotating harmo-melodic fields…“
Piano piece „The Mad Code“ – Aufführungen:
5. Juni 2016 – Uraufführung – Studio der Beethovenhalle, Bonn – Susanne Kessel, Klavier
2. Juli 2016 – Kunstmuseum Bonn – Susanne Kessel, Klavier
10. September 2016 – Roisdorfer Mineralquellen – Susanne Kessel, Klavier
13. September 2016 – Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck – Susanne Kessel, Klavier
Steffen Schorn (*1967)