Peter Ablinger:
"... mit äußerster Präzision" / das Mehrspurmetronom
the multi-track metronome, a note from 1988, realized 2020
Inspiriert von einem Nancarrow-Konzert im Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin am 20.11.1988 stellte ich Überlegungen an zu einem Set-up mit Mehrspurmetronom, wodurch mehrere Spieler je mit einem eigenen simultanen Metronom-Puls versehen werden könnten.
Inspired by a Nancarrow concert in the 'Haus der Kulturen der Welt' in Berlin on November 20th, 1988, I started thinking about a set-up with multi-track metronome, whereby several players could each be provided with their own simultaneous metronome pulse.
Soon after this general consideration, the idea followed "to use the headphone-metronome for traditional music (wind quintet): they all start at the same time and then, slowly slowly, it goes further and further apart, and with the utmost precision ..."
In 2020, I finally got myself 3 wind quintets from the classical era, wrote the parts into a music notation program in order to be able to export them as audio files and then manipulate (stretch/compress) them in time.Hier die so behandelten Schlusssätze (bzw. bei Nr.2 der Anfang des Finales) in einer (Corona-sicheren) Midi-Simulation:
Here are the final movements treated in this way (or, in case of number 2, the beginning of the 'finale') in a (Corona-safe) midi simulation: