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Kasper T. Toeplitz |
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Born in 1960, he is a composer and bass player. He writes music of long sound-waves, which develops slowly and abounds in long periods of silence. This form of music is preoccupied not so much with notes as with time, its oscillations and vibrations. Toeplitz1s output includes chamber music, works for large orchestra, the electric guitar orchestra, and dance shows, as well as purely electronic music created by means of computers and sound wave generators. His honours include First Prizes in the competition of OOpéra Autrement1 in Acanthes for the operaa J1irai vers le nord, j1irai dans la nuit polaire (1989) and at the International Competition for an Orchestral Work in Besançon for Lhow (1990). He has received grants and commissions from several French institutions (gmem, ircam, the Montpellier Opera) and the French government, as well as a Villa Kujoyama grant in Japan (1997). He has collaborated with well-known ensembles and composers (L1Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Ensemble tm+, Ensemble fa, Art Zoyd, Victor Nubla, Phil Niblock, György Kurtag, Zbigniew Karkowski). His discography comprises eleven cds. Selected recent works: Lhow for orchestra (1990), Memory-Cendres for female voice, bass clarinet, percussion and double-bass (1991), Stances d1 orchestre for orchestra (1996), Ruine for soprano and orchestra (1998), hron for orchestra (2000), L1Ecarlate for bass guitar, percussion and computer (2001) Appars for small orchestra and sampler (2002), Battling Siki, opera (2003). msg#9 is an extract from the musical material for the
opera Battling Siki, which I composed in February 2003 for the Bonn Opera.
It can be called a collage of the Obest moments1 of that score or an
Oorchestral suite1. At any rate, even though the work1s starting point was
ready-made material, it has been transformed into an autono- |
