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Tristan Murail: Doppler-Variationen

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This piece considers the guitar quartet as a huge microtonal 24-string guitar: the 4 guitars are tuned at an interval of one 8th of tone from each other. This micro-tuning allows the realisation of complex and unusual timbral and harmonic combinations, as well as harmonic »drifts« analog to Doppler effects.

Some »extended techniques« are used, and also, many playing techniques inspired by flamenco music (rasgueado, dedillo, golpe…).

The form of the piece is also somewhat inspired by flamenco music, especially, »bulerias« , where participants sing (and dance) in turn–semi-improvised songs based on short poems, interleaved with guitar solos and exclamations from the rest of the group of players and singers.

(Tristan Murail)

Tristan Murail, Komponist
© Christophe Abramowitz

Born in Le Havre in 1947, Tristan Murail received advanced degrees in classical and North African Arabic from the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes, as well as a degree in economic science, while at the same time pursuing his musical studies. In 1967, he became a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory, and also studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, graduating three years later. In 1971, he was awarded the Prix de Rome, and later received a First Prize in composition from the Paris Conservatory. He spent the next two years in Rome, at the Villa Medicis.

Upon returning to Paris in 1973, he co-founded the Ensemble L’Itineraire with a group of young composers and instrumentalists. The ensemble quickly gained wide recognition for its fundamental research in the area of instrumental performance and live electronics.

In the 1980s, Tristan Murail used computer technology to further his research in the analysis and synthesis of acoustic phenomena. He developed his own system of microcomputer-assisted composition, and then collaborated with Ircam for several years, where he taught composition from 1991 to 1997, and took part in the conception of the computer-assisted composition program »Patchwork«. In 1997, Tristan Murail was named professor of composition at Columbia University in New York, teaching there until 2010.

Again in Europe, he continued giving master-classes and seminars all over the world, was guest professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg for three years, and is currently guest professor at the Shanghai Conservatory.

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