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David Sawer
Sawer: Tiroirs for chamber ensemble, for chamber ensemble
UE17369
Type: Partitur
Format: 210 x 297 mm
ISBN: 9783702417178
Pages: 72
ISMN: 979-0-008-05929-2
Description
“...a random
phrase from which I drew images by distorting it, a little as though it were
the case of deriving them from the drawings of a rebus;” (from How I wrote Certain of my Books
by Raymond Roussel)
This piece was
prompted by the literary techniques of the French surrealist writer, Raymond
Roussel, who invented word games and language 'machines' – rhyming puns,
double-entendres and metagrams (whereby the meaning of a word is changed by
altering one letter) – to create theatrical scenarios, images and characters,
both magical and monstrous.
It is written
in one continuous movement made up of interlocking episodes (tiroirs)
which, with twists and turns, open up in the manner of a Russian doll.
David
Sawer 1996
More information
Type: Partitur
Format: 210 x 297 mm
ISBN: 9783702417178
Pages: 72
ISMN: 979-0-008-05929-2