The electroacoustic composition Palace by Gaudenz Badrutt combines the autobiographical, the carefully stored, the long lost and the accidentally forgotten with the spontaneity of rediscovery and reinvention.
In Palace, I interweave older archival recordings from my time as an Ives-playing pianist, field recordings, accidentally rediscovered leftovers and scraps of my daughter’s singing and piano playing, as well as newly created live performed material using oscillators, feedbacks and all of the above – sampled, de- and reconstructed, to create a symphonic density. The title Palace refers to the luxury hotel bearing my name. The Three-page Sonata by Charles Ives, Alfred Cortot playing Chopin, my daughter Greta and various sonic finds enrich my own sound palace, making it quite luxurious, priceless.
Side A: in (16:46)
Side B: out (16:51)
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“Gaudenz Badrutt has composed what might be the most compelling contemporary update to the work of Charles Ives, bringing the American composer into dialogue with a host of techniques – electronics and sampling chief among them – while continuing the perambulatory nature of Ives’s example.“
Colin Lang / Musique Machine
