Star Sounds   Schlagzeugkollektiv Tirol

The French composer Gérard Grisey, one of the most important composers of the 21st century and a representative of spectralism, was fascinated throughout his short life by the laws of space and ways of making the cosmos audible. In 1989, he took pulsars – rotating neutron stars whose electromagnetic waves can be converted into sound waves – as the point of departure for his Le Noir de l’Étoile. Grisey’s one-hour composition for six percussionists distributed around the auditorium behind the audience, which is now a classic of new music, explores the sound of the extinguished star. Grisey wrote the piece for Les Percussions de Strasbourg; this will be the first performance by Tyrolean musicians, namely Andreas Schiffer and his Schlagzeugkollektiv Tirol. An unforgettable concert experience.

Schlagzeugkollektiv Tirol
Stefan Bodner, Wolfgang Kurz, Matthias Legner, Gregor Moser, Chris Norz
Conductor: Andreas Schiffer