Lighthouse, I Was Everything

• Year of composition: 2024

• Instrumentation: ensemble (flute, Bb/bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello) with electronics

• Duration: 9' approx.

• Premiere: 17th September 2024 at SZentrum in Schwaz (AT) by NAMES Ensemble (conducted by Gregor Mayrhofer) for Klangspuren Schwaz

• Program notes:

“Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.”

George Kubler, art historian

The cyclical nature of a lighthouse, which moves in time but also in space – like a wave among waves – is the starting point of this work: a recursive, anxiety-provoking gesture, which is articulated in the narration of an autobiographical moment of search for inner harmony.

Through the exploration of recursion and its facets there is in fact inherent reflection on time, and on one's own identity in time – in a wave movement which is nothing but a vital push in its repetitive impulses, only apparently equal to each other.