Little Kiss

Instrumentation: String Quartet
Year of composition: 2023
Duration: 12 minutes

Commission: Kandinsky Quartett
Funding: Stadt Wien Kultur
Dedication: Lea Wildemann

Score: Published at Universal Edition

Premiere:
Kandinsky Quartett - Alte Schmiede, Wien Modern - 12.11.23

Additional Performances:

• Meitar Ensemble - 27.12.23 at CEME festival, Studio Annette, Tel Aviv.

This composition explores a magical musical phenomenon that I like to call "birth of sound." Through several preceding pieces, I've been experimenting with the idea that prolonged notes are able to give rise to other tones. This occurs in such a natural way, that it sounds to me as if they are „giving birth to them“, as if they are leaking out sonoric offsprings. Whether through the harmonic series of a fundamental tone, defined or an imaginary one, or even through chromatic relationships, the magic seemed to be real, and working and kept me ears and soul haunted. Luckily, during the creation of this piece, I also found myself deeply in the throes of love. And as love often does, it began to manifest itself in every aspect of my life. Slowly but surely, I started noticing striking similarities between my formal concept of leaking sounds and the nature of love in my personal experiences. These two ideas intertwined and drew inspiration from one another. Out of joy and curiosity, they pushed the boundaries of analogy and merged into a singular image: a spark. A spark of light, a spark of sound. That very initial spark, that ignites the heart and shines like a star in the lovers’ sky as they come together.
From that point onwards, I knew—the spark would be my pedal point, my guiding star, and the rest of the composition would be the music that drips from it, it’s sonoric child.