flagellatio ii (torso)
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Instrumentation — amplified piano + live video ad lib.
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Year — 2015/25
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Duration — ~ 15'
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Material — score + 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)

"Pianist Aljosja Buijs made a strong impression with the piece flagellatio ii (torso) by Raphaël Languillat. A kind of maximal minimal music, where he set the piano into exuberant singing with one or two powerfully struck notes. Out of the mêlée, melodies seemed to emerge, though that process might just as well have been happening in your own mind. Compare it to a squadron of B-17s at 30,000 feet, heading for Schweinfurt." Draai om je oren, Eddy Determeyer (April 2024)
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Première — 14.10.2016 @Moritzkirche | Augsburg (DE) — Gilles Grimaître
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flagellatio ii (torso)
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Instrumentation — amplified piano + live video ad lib.
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Year — 2015/25
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Duration — ~ 15'
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Material — score + 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)
"Pianist Aljosja Buijs made a strong impression with the piece flagellatio ii (torso) by Raphaël Languillat. A kind of maximal minimal music, where he set the piano into exuberant singing with one or two powerfully struck notes. Out of the mêlée, melodies seemed to emerge, though that process might just as well have been happening in your own mind. Compare it to a squadron of B-17s at 30,000 feet, heading for Schweinfurt." Draai om je oren, Eddy Determeyer (April 2024)
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Première — 14.10.2016 @Moritzkirche | Augsburg (DE) — Gilles Grimaître
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