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- Ramon Lazkano
Hatsik-3 (from the Cycle 'Chalk Laboratory') (2004)
- Le Chant Du Monde (World)
Commissioned by the Wiener Collage
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-3, for clarinet, alto saxophone, violin and piano, is the third of a series of five “unconventional” quartets. A muffled, unstable and fragile sound fails to shape a potentially exhausted and altered melodic line; conventionnal objects are inlaid within an interrupted flow from which a reflection of silence can emerge. Extreme ranges are associated with extreme dynamics, thus, music becomes an almost implosive 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-3, for clarinet, alto saxophone, violin and piano, is the third of a series of five “unconventional” quartets. A muffled, unstable and fragile sound fails to shape a potentially exhausted and altered melodic line; conventionnal objects are inlaid within an interrupted flow from which a reflection of silence can emerge. Extreme ranges are associated with extreme dynamics, thus, music becomes an almost implosive reduction of the initial possibilities.