Boskett

The piece "Boskett for tenor recorder and string quartet" was written in the early, first days of 2014. Incorporating the wish of the performers, the composition was to be based on a baroque form or idea. This specification was reflected in the title and compositional structure as follows:

Boskett (French le bosquet "grove," "copse," or "thicket") means, in an extra-musical sense, a special and elaborately designed type of Baroque garden art. These bosquets belong, schematically, to the structure of almost all Baroque gardens. A boskett is a "pleasure grove" within a Baroque garden that is entirely geometrical and thus completely artificial in design. Bosquets, like interiors, were used in the sense of an "extended interior" and also served as performance spaces for concerts, plays, or the other amusements common at the time. 

The baroque age (barocco: Portuguese for "slate pearl") is aesthetically concerned with making every artistic expression or movement "artificial." Unprocessed nature in itself is uninteresting, far from being art. This expresses an attitude towards art in which I find myself - even if with different signs - also in the age of omnipotent communication, pluralism and globalization. Synchronous and asynchronous musical levels become in my composition an own kind of architecture. This musical arichecture is like a boskett but an individual way of dealing with the material; just: individual artificiality, which wants to be structured emotionally and cognitively at the same time without being just a mood picture or even a direct program.