Dedalus: Portrait Pascale Criton

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Dedalus opens the third day of the festival with a portrait of Pascale Criton. Born in 1954, the French composer has been researching sound variability, microtones, and the spatialization of listening since the 1980s. Pascale Criton is particularly interested in reflections on the “continuum”. She is working with very dense microtonal scales. The very small intervals are hardly perceived by the ear, but are influencing the perception of timbre, rhythm, and sense of time. Following a presentation in collaboration with the Verband für aktuelle Musik Hamburg, Pascale Criton will present a selection of her compositions for the first time in Hamburg together with Dedalus. klub katarakt has commissioned a new piece from her, which will be premiered at the concert.

In the night concert, Dedalus will play Occam Hepta I by Éliane Radigue, which was written for the ensemble. Radigue (*1932), one of the most important pioneers of electronic music, writes long, gradual sound progressions with a feel for finest nuances in her instrumental music. The second piece played by the ensemble is Overlays – AtmospheresTransparent/Opaque by the American composer Catherine Lamb (*1982). This work was also written especially for the ensemble. Lamb belongs to a younger generation of composers who deal with the interaction of sounds, acoustic phenomena, just intonation, etc.