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Ulrike Storz, Felix Borel: Violins Hay que caminar sognando, Nono’s last completed composition, builds on trends in his composition that began to dominate Nono’s music in the early 1980s. Inspired by an inscription on a wall in Toledo, Nono increasingly referred to the concepts of the wanderer (caminante) and the idea of the purposeless wandering without a path: “Caminante no hay caminos hay que caminar” (Wanderer, there is no path, only the wandering). This topos, which recurs in many titles of his works, became the motto for Nono’s compositional work in his final years as well as a metaphor for how he understood himself as an artist. Hay que caminar sognando (There is only the wandering, dreaming), is in a sense a transcription of the composition that preceded it, La lontananza nostalgica utopica future for violin and tape: the composer took fragments from the violin part, adapted them to various degrees, and put them together again, using contrapuntal techniques and taking into account certain combinatorial possibilities, creating a unity that transcends the earlier piece. By reinterpreting the old materials, Nono was not claiming any finality for the new composition, as is clear from Nono’s efforts, which remained fragmentary, to use the piece for two violins as material for a new string quartet. The question of the completeness of what had been achieved is negated in favor of an option for perspectives that reach still further. The young Macedonian composer Evdokija Danajloska, who lives in France, has confronted this form of a compositional aesthetic of fragments. She too writes music whose fragility frequently approaches silence, turning the sounding of notes into a process that is subject to a high degree of risk. The concert’s two performers, Ulrike Storz and Felix Borel, have been known for years as interpreters of new music. They play regularly in such important groups as the ensemble recherche, the Ensemble Modern, the Musikfabrik, Varianti, est! est!! est!!!, gelberklang, the Trio Ginko (with Felix Borel), and the HELIOS-Streichquartett (with Ulrike Storz). |
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