antoine beuger: aus den liedern (düsseldorf 2008)

antoine beuger aus den liedern regine röttger, alto; chamber orchestra, düsseldorf 2008 mp3 available officially here: artwork: theodoros stamos, infinity series (lefkada series), 1980 reference: James Saunders, The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music: ”Over a period of a few months, starting in August 2007, Beuger composed ten melodies of four phrases each day, using a kind of notational shorthand. This quickly became a very large repertoire that Beuger has continued to add to, somewhat less regularly. The progress can be observed by the composer’s musical friends by checking a website he created for this purpose. Having no particular instrumentation, each melody can be seen as a potential for a piece and this is in fact what Beuger is doing, by using this material as the basis for completed works. A series of these pieces, called aus den liedern, assigns poetic texts by a mysterious process to some of the individual melodies from auch da. The effect of this (nearly) chance coming together of text and tune is surprising: it is as if the melody were lying in wait for the text, which, at the same time, is given new meaning by the contours of the tune”. Please contact if you wish to have your recording(s) taken down. Thank you.