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'Android' for Septet (Flute, Oboe and String Quintet)
Commissioned by the 'Sommersprossen' International Chamber Music Festival (Rottweil, Germany). (Re-orchestration of 'Cyborg' for symphonic Orchestra)
Playing time: 24:00
Opus/Year: (2010)
Genre: Chamber
Instrumentation: Fl., Ob., 2 Vl., Vla., Vc., Cb.
Premiere performance: 02.07.2010 / Rottweil / Germany
Elisa Goritzki (Fl.), Ingo Goritzki (Ob.), Winfried Rademacher (Vl.1), n.n. (Vl.2), Deinhart Goritzki (Vla.), Johannes Goritzki (Vc.), Wolfgang Güttler (Cb.)
Conductor: Ferran Cruixent
Score material available at Sikorski Music Publishers
Review:
"What he’s done, is write a piece where he wants to show how emerging technologies can be conjoined with what is a very traditional organization – the symphony orchestra. There are many, many unusual sounds that happen in this piece. The players are asked to speak. They are asked to sing. They are asked to play their instruments in unusual ways. But where the ‘cyborg’ implication comes from, meaning some form of creature that is part human; part machine, is that each orchestra member must download an MP3 file that the composer has created, and near the end of the piece, they all press their phones and it’s played back on the stage as we continue to play other things. So, he’s introducing a communications device into the orchestra, showing this way that technology combines with what we do. He calls it ‘cyber singing.’ It’s fascinating. The real thing that makes this amazing, is that he’s not coming over for the performance, but he’ll be watching it on the Internet from Spain. And to think about that – that the composer has the chance to hear his worked played for the first time in the United States by using the very technology he’s writing about. That’s extraordinary."
(Leonard Slatkin, conductor)
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released May 8, 2014
Composer: Ferran Cruixent
Elisa Goritzki (Fl.), Ingo Goritzki (Ob.), Winfried Rademacher (Vl.1), n.n. (Vl.2), Deinhart Goritzki (Vla.), Johannes Goritzki (Vc.), Wolfgang Güttler (Cb.)
Conductor: Ferran Cruixent
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