Circle Series
Following their acclaimed Brisbane premiere, Soundstream Collective present the Adelaide performance of Hanna Kulenty’s Circles Series (1994-6). The series represent Kulenty’s self titled ‘European trance music’, her original version of ‘post-minimalist’ style. The result is music of incredible emotional intensity and sheer sonorous impact,reflecting the richness of the composer’s internal life. One recalls Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic description of music as “feelings transformed into audible landscape.” “One of Poland’s most interesting composers.” BBC “I was...
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Gabriella Smart solo on piano with bell-like chords transforming into harmonic clumps bashed hard and fast. The piece builds intensity then...Sudden-Dramatic-Stop...and it all goes relaxed, post-coital, in what turns out to be a structural device common across the whole series.
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