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Heiner Goebbels Surrogate Cities [EAC ape log cue]
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Artist:..............Heiner Goebbels
Album:...........Surrogate Cities
Released:.....2000
Source:..........EMC
Genre:............Classical
Format:..........EAC-ape-log-cue
"Surrogate Cities" is an attempt to approach the phenomenon of the city from various sides, to tell stories of cities, expose oneself to them, observe them, it is material about metropolises that has accumulated over the course of time. The work was inspired partly by texts, but also by drawings, structures and sounds, the juxtaposition of orchestra and sampler playing a considerable role because of the latter's ability to store sounds and noises ordinarily alien to orchestral sonorities. The associations I have are with a realistic, certainly contradictory, but ultimately positive image of the modern city. My intention was not to produce a close-up but to try and read the city as a text and then to translate
something of its mechanics and architecture into music...
When it comes to the power dynamics of the city, the individual is always the more vulnerable party. Art rebels against this overpowering structure by strengthening the subjective element. Music, too, is composed from a highly subjective perspective, for composers usually justify what they write by saying that they "need to get it out of their system". That is only partly true for me. I try to gain a bit more distance. I construct something that confronts the audience and the audience reacts to it, discovering in the music a space they can enter complete with their associations and ideas.
(From a conversation
with Heiner Goebbels)
total playing time:....70:10
orchestra:.................Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
voices:.......................Jocelyn B. Smith, David Moss
conductor:.................Peter Rundel
with words by Heiner Mueller, Hugo Hamilton
and Paul Auster
Awards:.....................Grammy Nomination 2001
Tracklisting:
01....Chaconne / Kantorloops
02....Allemande / Les ruines
03....Gigue Reinhören
04....Sarabande / N-touch
05....Bourrée / Wildcard
06....Passacaglia
07....Courante
08....Menuett / L'ingénieur
09....Gavotte / N-touch Remix
10....Air / Compression
11....Rome and Alba
12....So that the Blood dropped to the Earth
13....Dwell where the Dogs dwell
14....D&C
15....Surrogate
16....In the Country of Last Things