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- Ramon Lazkano
Hatsik-1 (from the Cycle 'Chalk Laboratory') (2001)
- Le Chant Du Monde (World)
Commissioned by the Wiener Collage Ensemble and the Council of Culture of the Basque Government.
Hatsik: 'from the breath', in Basque.
Programme Note
'Chalk Laboratory' (Igeltsoen Laborategia) is a vast chamber music cycle, one of Lazkano’s major creative achievements, which experiments with small forms by ‘waving light and moveable musical textures’.
Lazkano's 'Laboratory' is inspired by the Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza's own 'Chalk Laboratory',in which he experimented with sculpture of very small sizes made of fragile and lightweight materials, such as electric wires, tinplate or chalk.
Hatsik-1 is the first of a series of five “unconventional” quartets, in which the fragility and the instability of the sound is combined with an exhausted and absurdly interrupted melodic line. Extreme ranges are associated with extreme dynamics, thus, music becomes a black and white reduction of the initial possibilities.
Lazkano's 'Laboratory' is inspired by the Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza's own 'Chalk Laboratory',in which he experimented with sculpture of very small sizes made of fragile and lightweight materials, such as electric wires, tinplate or chalk.
Hatsik-1 is the first of a series of five “unconventional” quartets, in which the fragility and the instability of the sound is combined with an exhausted and absurdly interrupted melodic line. Extreme ranges are associated with extreme dynamics, thus, music becomes a black and white reduction of the initial possibilities.