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Title & composer


Composition year: 1994
Duration: 9 min 30 s

Context

Performance

Instrumentation
f stråktrio
Classification
Stråktrio
Subject heading
Xk
Language

First performance

Date
1994-04-07
Location
Stockholm, Kulturhuset
Performers
Jeffrey Lee, Henrik Frendin, Åsa Åkerberg

Background

Comments about the work
Watching a fire, one becomes mesmerized by the dancing flames which are continuously varied in their shades of color, in their intensity and direction, and in their size and power. While the fire burns, and slowly but surely changes the make-up of its fueling material, it is also leaping about in various chaotic and irregular configurations of flames and sparks. Though jagged and dramatic, these bursting displays seem nonetheless to bear the shapes of re-emerging patterns. In other words, even though no two configurations of flames and sparks are identical, their appearance is repetitive by nature. It is my intention that the listeners' aural experience of Burn might be analogous to watching the dancing flames of such a fire.Daniel Nelson

List

The work

Composer
Title
Burn
Duration
9 minutes 30 seconds
Composition year
1994

Information

Identification number
144720
Work administrator
SMIC (SMIC)
Format
SCORE

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Preview

Sheet music sample (PDF)
Score