Georg Friedrich Haas
Les temps tiraillés
(2008)
for 2 violas, bassoon and electronics
Duration: 60'
Haas - Les temps tiraillés for 2 violas, bassoon and electronics
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Georg Friedrich Haas’s piece Les Temps Tiraillés (Time Torn Apart), was commissioned by IRCAM and the Centre Pompidou and premièred in Paris, with choreography by Myriam Gourfink. Haas says of his composition: ‘The electronics are contrasted with three instruments: a bassoon (Pascal Gallois) and two violas (Geneviève Strosser, Garth Knox). In the first part of the piece, the instruments become islands in the stream of electronic sound. Part two is extremely quiet, on the very edge of audibility and with the musicians moving around the room, whilst part three multiplies the instrumental parts to create a dense, almost orchestral sound.’