Discography
Peter Ablinger: Voices and Piano (2010 collection)
Contents:
Guillaume Apollinaire
Bonnie Barnett
Berthold Brecht
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Heimito von Doderer
Marcel Duchamp
Hans Eisler
Morton Feldman
Martin Heidegger
Lech Walesa
Mao Tse-tung
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu (Mother Theresa)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Ilya Prigogine
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hanna Schygulla
Gertrude Stein
Orson Welles
Kairos KAI0013082
Release date: 15th Feb 2010
See also the 2016 collection.
Voices and Piano, written for Nicolas Hodges, is an extensive cycle of pieces, each for a single recorded voice, mostly of a well-known celebrity, and piano. The cycle is still in progress and should eventually include about 80 pieces/voices (around 4 hours of music). The work is always meant to occur as a selection from the whole. At present I like to write works where the whole should not be presented at once. The whole should remain the whole, and what we hear is just a part of it. (Peter Ablinger)
'I often find myself asking where the music in this situation resides. It is clearly not in the piano part alone, nor is it in the recorded voice. It is in the relationship between the two parts, their counterpoint: sometimes they are subtly different parallel lines, sometimes two interweaving yet independent parts, sometimes the piano is a machine desperately attempting to contain or imitate humanity.' (Nicolas Hodges)
'I often find myself asking where the music in this situation resides. It is clearly not in the piano part alone, nor is it in the recorded voice. It is in the relationship between the two parts, their counterpoint: sometimes they are subtly different parallel lines, sometimes two interweaving yet independent parts, sometimes the piano is a machine desperately attempting to contain or imitate humanity.' (Nicolas Hodges)