Event
Thirteen Colours Tour
- Date: Friday, 27 August 2010, 8.30pm
- Venue: ABC Studios Adelaide — Adelaide, SA
Event Details
Treize couleurs du soleil couchant by the French composer Tristan Murail is a beautiful sonic metaphor for the setting sun. Like watching a sunset, the work imperceptibly draws the listener through slowly transforming colours of seemingly infinite depth and subtlety.
Murail, together with compatriot Gérard Grisey is credited with establishing an entirely new school of composition called ‘spectral music'. Just as light can be broken into a spectrum of colours, so too a rich sound can be broken into a kaleidoscope of microscopic frequencies.
Given the spectral movements' vast influence in contemporary music world wide, this seminal repertoire is seldom heard in Australia. Ensemble Offspring provides a rare opportunity to hear this unique and engaging music. Features a premiere by Australian composer and violinist and James Cuddeford.
Featured non-Australian music: Kaija Saariaho, Giacinto Scelsi, Claude Vivier, Tristan Murail, Gérard Grisey
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured artists
- Performer Ensemble Offspring
- Music of James Cuddeford
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