After Frottage
for 'cello, clarinet
By Alexandre Lunsqui
Brazilian
Brazilian
“Frottage is a technique developed by German artist Max Ernst, which consists of rubbing drawings over a textured surface. After Frottage, therefore, is a piece inspired by this technique. Clarinet and cello become my drawing tool as a series of gestures and harmonic envelopes, pre-arranged in a structural frame, are “rubbed” in various ways – intensively, gently, changing angles, mixing colors, changing background light, etc – on a common drawing board to all of us: time. The piece is dedicated to Sumiro Kudo and Benjamin Fingland.” – A.L.
“All I say is that non-experts often know more than experts and should therefore be consulted and that prophets of truth (including those who use arguments) more often than not are carried along by a visions that clashes with the very events that vision is supposed to be exploring.
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--Paul K. Feyerabend, Against Method