Grisailles by Peter Ablinger, Echonance Festival Amsterdam

Reinier van Houdt, Keiko Sichiko en Frederik Croene, piano

Echonance Festival, Amsterdam

The throbbing standstill as changing tinge of light, as a slow change (of light and therefore of space and time), fifty minutes long. Grisailles 1-100 for three pianos consists of various levels of overlapping sound-layers. Repeated octaves and small, barely audible sounds made by fingers darting across the keys seem to be two of these levels. Peter Ablinger composed twenty-four layers to start with—each one following its own time and structure—, before these were being combined in a preliminary score. — Christian Scheib