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Gabriel Malancioiu
Chronos phagos
UES100723-141
Type: Noten
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 8
Description
Everything in the objective world lies under the influence of Time; but is there anything that can escape it’s ruthless devouring? Shakespeare answers in this sonnet: there is something that transcends Time, something that Time cannot touch, something called Love.
The title of the piece is a reference to a large sculptural clock, Corpus Clock, that can be found at the Taylor Library from the Cambridge University. The dominating visual feature of the clock is a metal sculpture similar to a grasshopper, that appears to eat up the seconds as they pass. Taylor, the conceiver and the funder of the project, calls the beast the Chronophage.
The image of Time eating everything that can be found in the manifested world is suggested by a musical structure presented by the cello, consisting of four phrases (in relation with the structural form of the sonnet), that will appear three times (each time being more distored, indifferent registers of the instrument), until at the end of the piece it disappears completely. The musical language used throughout the piece is quite tense (the minor second and the augmented forth being the predominant intervals), except the end of the work, the moment presenting That which Time cannot devour: Love (the minor sixth being the prevailing interval).
Chronos phagos is dedicated to Matt Haimovitz and to Trio Voice.
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Type: Noten
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 8