Sonic Asymmetry

Josef Matthias Hauer – “Zwölftonspiel für Klavier”

ヨセフ・マティアス・ハウアー – 「12音色のピアノ演奏」

TIME COMMITMENT: 4 minutes

Hauer’s hesitant, halting permutations doggedly evade tonality by breaking through the molded walls of chromatic scales.  Like an ephemeral cluster of raindrops, this soliloquy warbles mostly in the middle-key range.  If CPE Bach demanded that consonances be played softly, here they flee as if embarrassed by their own obsolescence.

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Josef Matthias Hauer – Das Zwölftonspiel

A REFLECTION

Something pale wakes up in a suffocating room.

The eyes

of the stony old woman

shine, two moons.

Georg Trakl “Birth”