Label: Another Timbre

2022年に同Another Timbreより、フランスのバロックやヴァンデルヴァイザー派、近藤譲の実験主義までを落とし込んだアルバム[L'art De Toucher]をリリースした米国の作曲家Evan Johnson。バロック時代、17世紀の終わりから18世紀の前半に用いられた擦弦楽器であるヴィオラ・ダモーレの為に書いた全50分のソロ曲を出版。広大な静寂の中、音が如何にして自らの居場所を見つけるかを考察するというコンセプチュアルな作品で、静寂を受け入れ最小限の演奏に聞き入る事が出来る素晴らしい内容。





A 50 minute solo for viola d'amore played by Marco Fusi. The piece was composed in 2022-2023, and has six movements.

Marco Fusi: "To write about dust book is to reflect on silence, and how sounds find their own place in vast amounts of silence. To listen to dust book is to listen to silence, and to the sounds that occur within. A metaphor can assist the process, I believe.

Imagine silences as surfaces. Imagine many kinds of surfaces. Glass, wood, granite, grass, paper, books. Surfaces collect dust, and each surface collects a different kind of dust.

When vibrations move the air, dust flows away from these surfaces and then, slowly, comes to rest again. And the listener remains enchanted by the marginal, minimal movements of the minute particles of dust, flickering through light.

dust book welcomes a similar attitude; listeners (and performers, and the composer, I suspect) attend to the piece, observing and making sense of its convolutions, of its brief frantic dances, and its slow returns to stillness. The meticulous crafting of its parts hides behind the contemplative attitude that dust book invites. We do not expect movement, we welcome stillness, and, still, we stay open to the beauty of each grain of sound, of each vibration and its rebounds."