20:00 - Netzwerk für zeitgenössische Musik in Hamburg

„JARDIN SECRET II“ (1984-86) for harpsichord and tape
continues the line of composition I began to develop in
„JARDIN SECRET I“ for tape alone. I concentrated more
particularly on rhythm. Thus in these two pieces, on the
same principle, I have particularly worked on the abiguity
in the relationships between pitch, harmony, timbre and
noise.
So whereas in „JARDIN SECRET I“, the rhythmic interpolations
have none of the perceptive mechanism, in „JARDIN
SECRET II“, the attention is drawn to the relation between
the instrument and the tape, to thedifferences between the
human interpretation and that of the computer, likewise
musical material created with the aid of the computer.
Unlike „JARDIN SECRET I“, where the tape material was
produced completely synthetically, „JARDIN SECRET II“
uses concrete sounds (the harpsishord and my own voice
that were fed into the computer and processed at the digital
studio of GRM, including the spatialisation. Finally the
material was given rhhythmic shape using FORMES programme
at IRCAM.
Kaija Saariaho