performed by Schallfeld Ensemble at the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik on October 8th, 2022 in Bludenz, Austria
Flute - Elisa Azzarà
Bb / Bass Clarinet – Szilárd Benes
Soprano/Baritone Saxophone – Matej Bunderla
Accordion – Mirko Jevtović
Piano – Patrick Skrilecz
Percussion – Manuel Alcaraz Clemente
Violin – Lorenzo Derinni
Viola – Francesca Piccioni
Cello – Myriam García Fidalgo
Double Bass – Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka
Conductor – Leonhard Garms
Sound engineer - Davide Gagliardi
recorded by Chris Swithinbank
mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield
commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
Program note:
“End of summer, light between your eyes” deals with memory: not as something which flows easily and envelops you like a dream, but as a series of sensations, zoomed in, never able to regain the momentum or consistency of experience.
Only the essence of the feeling, the strange details that remain after years, more present than the significant moments which always seem to disappear and reappear without reason, without a thread to hold them together.
It deals with memory as distraction, as the inability to stay present in a moment, as a kind of zig-zag through realities both present and obscure; as something which binds together and something which is irredeemably isolating, which constantly presses on the ability to share anything at all.
