"On Night"
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“On Night” – a triptych for solo soprano saxophone and ensemble lasting nearly an hour in duration, will be featured this upcoming season by the Argento New Music Project and saxophonist Eliot Gattegno at the Austrian Cultural Forum, Czech Center, Joyce Soho Gallery, EMPAC (Experimental Music and Performing Arts Center), and international venues in Scandinavia and Central Europe. The project will be commercially released on the Tzadik label later this year.
The first work, Himmelfahrt in die Tiefen der Nacht – “Ascension into the depths of the night”, was composed especially for saxophonist Eliot Gattegno and the Heidelberger Frühling Internationales Musikfestival. Articulated in a single movement, the work traverses through a variety of different ensemble formations and dense textures. The ensemble’s delicate scoring often creates sonic cohesion with the glowing timbres and extended techniques of the solo saxophone. Following a cadenza near the conclusion of the work, the ensemble joins the saxophone in episodes of ascending gestures that eventually decay into haunting textures of metallic percussion amid a rich palate of saxophone multiphonics.
The second and third installations of the work will be featured in the Moving Sounds Festival and Joyce Soho Gallery in New York City in September and October.
"On Night" - Part I: Himmelfahrt in die Tiefen der Nacht
Second Instrumental Unit
Eliot Gattegno, solo soprano saxophone
David Fulmer, conductor
