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Futurum Exactum, for string ensemble (1992)
Oslo Sinfonietta
Christian Eggen
The title reflects a preoccupation with time. The "now" containing both past and future. The moment extended into a fluid present where a non-linear sound world appears. And within this world there are sudden "cuts" into the substance of time creating dramatic discontinuities in the overall continuous flow.
Technically speaking the piece may be described as a time machine, polyphonic clockworks ticking relentlessly. The machine is constructed to define matrices of time-points, networks of time relations controlling and triggering the spatial dimensions of the pieces.
Time and space appear as complimentary dimensions. And complimentary opposites are essential in the construction of the piece where the synchronized is contrasted with the unsynchronized, the linear with the non-linear, the symmetrical with the asymmetrical, the compressed with the expanded, the slow with the rapid, the soft with the strong, etc. --Cecilie Ore
Art by Giacomo Balla
Futurum Exactum, for string ensemble (1992)
Oslo Sinfonietta
Christian Eggen
The title reflects a preoccupation with time. The "now" containing both past and future. The moment extended into a fluid present where a non-linear sound world appears. And within this world there are sudden "cuts" into the substance of time creating dramatic discontinuities in the overall continuous flow.
Technically speaking the piece may be described as a time machine, polyphonic clockworks ticking relentlessly. The machine is constructed to define matrices of time-points, networks of time relations controlling and triggering the spatial dimensions of the pieces.
Time and space appear as complimentary dimensions. And complimentary opposites are essential in the construction of the piece where the synchronized is contrasted with the unsynchronized, the linear with the non-linear, the symmetrical with the asymmetrical, the compressed with the expanded, the slow with the rapid, the soft with the strong, etc. --Cecilie Ore
Art by Giacomo Balla
