ECLAT 8

James Dillon: The Freiburg Diptych
for Solo Violin, Tape [&] Live Electronics (2019) ^WP/38′

I . . . drone . . .
II . . . ghost stations . . .

Irvine Arditti, violin
Live electronic realization: SWR Experimentalstudio
Sound direction: Thomas Hummel and Lukas Nowok

Broadcast 1. April 2020/SWR2 JetztMusik/23:03

»It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores«
(John Keats)

An island of concentration in the middle of an evening marked by »telling stories«. A diptych unfolds whose two equally important movements could not be more different: one is exuberant, extroverted, virtuoso and episodic, the other an elegy–fragile, pale, in which the musical action is captured in slow motion. The work was the result of a long, intensive and mutually understanding collaboration between the composer and his interpreter together with the Freiburg sound specialists from the SWR Experimentalstudio.