Kairos: KAI0012452

Gadenstätter: Comic Sense

Written in 2002-03, this work offers a rare example of contemporary music that is happy, playful and fresh, and downright friendly at times, without stooping to banality, trivial clichés or stereotypical gags. It arouses the listener’s curiosity, surprises, occasionally even astounds. It draws us in not by relying solely upon familiar emotions but through an extremely vital form of continuous searching. The structure of this extremely colourful ensemble piece, which is divided into three seasons, takes flight into the unknown with uncommon persistence. Open tones intertwine in a mixture of the familiar and bizarre to produce often curious effects. Above all, it is a very promising attempt to open the minds of the public to the new and unusual.