ERGEBNIS 2
ian harris
www.orrery-music.co.uk
I see a boy walking across this land Here where the sun rises through a misty land. No longer lost inside, he smiles With such eyes like mine, full of love and full of hope But do those eyes see mine? Look beyond the sun, beyond the moon Beyond the guiding stars we are A greener land the trees so high Abounding land, so green. The text spoken in German includes the title of the last of Mahler’s
Rückert Songs: ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ (I have lost
track of the world). Although none of Mahler’s music is present in my
piece, my spoken text connects to the idea of the individual finding a
private heaven, a place of repose. At the conclusion of this work I hope to achieve a meta-narrative
through the layering of different music, related stories and text
associations. Ergebnis 2 is a work in a state of flux, so that
transformations of its components, addition or subtraction of intertextual
elements may occur as time moves on, as the piece is re-recorded or
performed. The first version of Ergebnis was composed in 2001. An
earlier second version was also sent to the Ars Electronica Festival 2002
in Linz/Austria.
"Ergebnis 2 creates a personal intertextuality within my own
musical output. This work hopes to make connections with lost memories,
lost knowledge. The inclusion of melodic fragments sampled from recordings
I have made in the past, act as signifiers to personal experience but
remain open to wider interpretation.
The fragments for soprano come from my song
'Across This Land’ with lyrics that describe a spiritual
landscape. Originally a song for soprano and piano in the English Pastoral
tradition.
Within the main structure of the piece one hears fragments of piano music,
jazz vibraphone and trumpet, as well as electronic sounds and further sung
material.
Works which have influenced the creation of this piece, include
‘Ships in Embrace of the Endless Dark Ocean’,
by Ivana Ognjanovic. A
work which samples the opening of Dialogue of the wind and the sea
from Debussy's ‘La Mer’ and also ‘A
Parisian In Paradise’ Anthony Pitts’ 45 minute re-creation for
radio of Paris in 1943.
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© Ian Harris 2002