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Title & composer

Relief



Composition year: 1996
Duration: 11 min 30 s

Context

Performance

Instrumentation
Elektroakustisk musik
Classification
Elektroakustisk musik
Subject heading
Yn
Language

Recording

Date
1998-04-21
Location
Manchester, ISCM

Background

Comments about the work
Relief is the second piece in a trilogy with the collective name RE-cycle. The first piece, Respirit, for percussion ensemble and tape, was premièred at the Invensionen Festival in Berlin 1993 by the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble. In Relief I reused some of the sound material from the tape part of Respirit and also added new sounds. The basic material consists of recorded percussion instruments, guitar, 'objets trouvés’ and environmental sounds. Relief is composed using a recycling technique where sounds return in new, processed shapes. In the middle of the piece the sound material has been processed to such an extreme that practically nothing remains except noise. After a powerful eruption and an abrupt ending of this phase, the original material returns and gradually develops towards a new, different and hollow sound world.Jens Hedman

Record Label

SMIC

List

The work

Composer
Title
Relief
Duration
11 minutes 30 seconds
Composition year
1996

Information

Identification number
113468
Record Label
Svensk Musik Swedmic AB
Box 17092
Stockholm
Phone: 08-783 88 00
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.svenskmusik.org
Format
RECORDING
Reference to physical copy
E-D33:13

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