The Ensemble Intercontemporain and its musical director Pierre Bleuse are continuing their monographs on the great personalities of contemporary music. After the multi-award-winning Ligeti, this album celebrates the composer Unsuk Chin. The Korean-born artist moved to Germany in the 1980s. Her music captivates with its immediate sensuality, and the inexhaustible transformations of her instrumental polyphony create unprecedented sound constellations. This program presents her piece Gougalon (2009 / 12), which in six episodes with deliberately unusual instrumentation evokes memories of the wandering amateur theaters of her home country. She presents it as "imaginary folk music that is stylized and fragmented and only appears primitive at first glance". Chin titled her piece for large ensemble from 2013 "Graffiti". All registers of sound are exploited in a colorful, lively and varied way. "The musical language of "Graffiti" oscillates between roughness and sophistication, complexity and transparency," says the composer. Her double concerto for piano and percussion rounds off this program.
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