According to the Bellows; Circles of Discording Echoes

(2023)

Composer Loïc Destremau

Instrumentation For Accordion

Category Solo

Publication year 2025

Catalogue no. C.1963

Duration 6 minutes

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Background

This commission has its roots in José Valente’s doctoral studies in Gdansk on the “Idiomatic Compositional Process for Classical Accordion” – a collaborative project developed between Valente and four Danish composers with the aim of contributing to the Danish classical accordion literature. The focus is on research and analysis of the compositional difficulties in writing for solo classical accordion and alongside this the establishment of solutions to these problems. In this regard, the compositions were required to cover a set of extended techniques for the instrument as a starting point for technical writing and performance research. To this end the compositions were also required to be kept completely solo, acoustic, and conservatively playable: no audio-equipment involved, no gadgets, other instruments or preparations of the instrument, no visual (e.g. theatrical, scenic) elements etc.

Program Note

Perspective – as a notional distance within the ear, eye and perceiving mind – sets up the starting point of applying natural audio(visual) phenomena such as echo and wagon-wheel effects to the acoustic accordion. A procedure of exploring the perspectives on a) solo-voice/instrument/performer vs. plural/polyphonic constellations, as well as the perspectives on b) algorithmic music generated from nature vs. the human performer, and lastly c) an exploration of rhythmical, harmonic and circulating patterns and textures to challenge the very core sound and physical source of the presented music – the control of the accordion bellows itself.

According to the Bellows; Circles of Discording Echoes

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