flagellatio ii (torso)
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Instrumentation — for a performer, amplified piano + live video ad lib.
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Year — 2015/18
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Duration — ca. 15'
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Material — score (version: 05/2021) + recording
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Program notes — "[...] it was less a composition than a 15-minute torture session, in which the keys were pounded with such relentless ferocity that the piano came to resemble a machine unleashing impossible waves of reverberant fury. A mind-blowing experience, one went away from it feeling drained and spent." Beyond mere novelty, Simon Cummings (published in dissonance 141, March 2018, p. 39-40)
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Première — Gilles Grimaître - @Moritzkirche | Augsburg (DE) - 14/10/2016
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