RIP Rădulescu

Sadly, 90% of the spectral music composers disappeared before 10% of the world even knew they existed.

Horaţiu Rădulescu – Capricorn’s Nostalgic Crickets, opus 16 no 2 (1980), per 7 flauti.

Program notes:

7 flutes move along a “square well” of 96 sounds – an “infinite melody”, closed circle of “inharmonic” quarter-tones. Each of the 7 has a different start point: a canon which had already began since the sound-sources play continuously.

Each sound lasting ca 9 seconds (subjective time) is irregularly placed within a period of 11 second-long (objective time). Imagine a sphere with equidistant 96 meridians/feints through which irrupt 96 micro-music events. Due to their various consistency that implacable periodicity (the 11 second-pulse) will become imperceptible.

Four types of sound-production technique (“timbre-being”) activate the micro-spectrality of each sound:

yellow tremolo (“morse” signals of different fingerings on a unique pitch)
stable multiphonics
unstable multiphonics, “overblowing producing “spectral thermometers”, multiphonics variably explicitated
simultaneously singing and instrumental sound with flattertongue

The statistical reading of these 4 types of “timbre-being” creates a “directional random” evolving toward several “accidents of purity” (the 20th eruption : 6 yellow tremoli and l overblowing the 43rd eruption : no multiphonic (unique case) the 87th eruption : 6 sung flattertonguings and 1 yellow tremolo) and inscribing itself into a fusiformali macro-register trajectory. This resembles a natural phenomenon where the cause (sound – sources) and the effect (sound parameters) become very often undetectable, a “drunk organ” simulated by the seven flutes.

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