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Music as organised time and music as a metaphor for our communication – these fundamental forms of compositional thinking repeatedly come to the fore in Oriol Saladrigues’ works in a variety of forms. Time appears on the one hand as a global duration, as an extension of the piece, but on the other hand as a proportion, as the relationship of its parts to one another, from the level of formal sections down to the sequence of individual note values and pulsations. How these time forms are connected, how their relationship can become the subject of conscious composition and, in particular, how the handling of irregularities can remain both controllable and as flexible as possible – these are not just technical questions from the composer’s workshop, but aesthetically exciting perspectives that the music of Oriol Saladrigues opens up to the listener. Composing thus becomes a form of artistic research and the individual work becomes a test arrangement, an experiment. Under such conditions, the creative process appears to be even more of a gamble than it already is; the composer is confronted with the risk of failure. Beauty, however, can only be found beyond certainty, and Oriol Saladrigues knows this.

The works collected on this CD successfully take this risk. They present the musical poetics of Oriol Saladrigues as well as essential aspects of his sound world and its processes.

To the complete album at KAIROS

Oriol Saladrigues in the archive of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation