Georg Friedrich Haas "In Vain" for 24 instruments (2000)
Posted: Mar 5, 2015
For listening to music, melodic lines, well-tempered pitch rasters and the metric measure Akzentstufentakt are comparable, for walking a staircase, to banisters, handrails, and usual size and placement of steps. The standard staircase relieves you from thinking about your walking movements; in music, the usual proportions of pitches and tempi are not calculated for the purpose of drawing the listener’s attention to their peculiarity. The regular pulse and the twelve-tone division of the piano...