Sonic Asymmetry

Anton Webern – “String Quartet op.28”

アントン・ウェーベルン –  「弦楽四重奏op.28」

TIME COMMITMENT: 15 minutes

The expressionist quartet’s nocturnal scraps germinate and burgeon, then imperceptibly whittle down in curvilinear fashion.  Webern’s serialist repetitions initially stem from an anarchic chromatic core, but are later reversed and further superimposed.  This was done long before studio multi-tracking durably changed our reception of musical textures.

MUSIC

Opus 28:

(a much earlier) Opus 20:

INFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_(Webern)

A REFLECTION

Eye’s roundness between the bars

Vibratile monad eyelid

Propels itself upward, releases a glance

Iris, swimmer, dreamless and dreary

The sky, heart-grey, must be near.

Paul Celan – “Language Mesh”