Reinhold Friedl String Quartets, by Quatuor Diotima

Reinhold Friedl String Quartets

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	1.	String Quartet I 09:34
	2.	String Quartet III 08:58
	3.	String Quartet II 20:16

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THE MUSIC

Reinhold Friedl’s string quartets do not pretend to be string quartets: they are anti-Goethe. There is no sophisticated conversation of four elder gentlemen, sitting in arm chairs. The music is physical work for the performers and intended to be physical pleasure for the listeners. All three quartets are based on the same idea: smooth transformations from a given texture into another one. The random-driven details vary between the pieces and the parts of the pieces. Meanwhile Reinhold Friedl developed a software in the frame of a PHD project at Goldsmiths University London to help him modeling these texture transpositions.

STRING QUARTET NO 1 (2005 dedicated to Anton Lukoszevieze, commissioned by BBC London) is focused on a ghostly sound choreography, made possible by a strange choreography: instruments are only bowed in circles. These simple movements combined in an asymmetric rhythmical structure causes complex soundscapes, that tend to develop to a certain final state, and they do, driven by a hypnotic force.

STRING QUARTET NO 3 (2016, dedicated to Pierre Morlet, commissioned by G((o))ng Tomorrow Copenhagen) can be listened to as a reference to some modern string quartet sound. Famous chords and melodies are quoted and hidden in their pure quantity. Sweet sugar music. An essay how to compose a decrescendo without a culmination point. Slowly and precisely slip away, ending nowhere.

STRING QUARTET NO 2 (2009 for Quatuor Diotima, commissioned by the French State for the Festival Les Musiques in Marseille, France) is written for Quatuor Diotima as a sportive piece. After a charming beginning, it becomes more and more a physical challenge for the performers, playing tremolo almost without break, to get the music to the final grooving rhythmical end: get out of my face !

Étant anti-Goethe, les quatuors à corde de Reinhold Friedl ne prétendent pas être des quatuors à cordes. Il ne s’agit pas d’une conversation sophistiquée entre quatre hommes d’âge mûr assis dans des fauteuils. La musique est une performance physique pour les interprètes et destinée à être un plaisir physique pour les auditeurs.

Les trois quatuors sont basés sur une même idée : des transformations progressives d’une texture donnée en une autre. Les détails tirés au hasard varient entre les pièces et les parties des pièces. Entre temps, dans le cadre d’un projet de doctorat à la Goldsmiths University de Londres, Reinhold Friedl a développé un logiciel pour l’aider à modéliser ces transpositions de texture.

LE QUATUOR À CORDES N ° 1 (2005 dédié à Anton Lukoszevieze, commandé par le BBC Londres, UK) se concentre sur une chorégraphie aux sons fantomatiques qui est rendue possible grâce à une étrange chorégraphie : les instruments ne cessent de s’incliner en cercles. Ces mouvements simples combinés à une structure rythmique asymétrique provoquent des paysages sonores complexes, qui ont tendance à se développer jusqu’à atteindre un certain état final et entraînés par une force hypnotique.

LE QUATUOR À CORDES N ° 3 (2016, dédié à Pierre Morlet, violoncelliste du Quatuor Diotima, commandé par G((o))ng Tomorrow Copenhagen) peut être écouté comme faisant référence à certains clichéssonores de quatuors à cordes modernes. Les accords et les mélodies célèbres sont rappelés et cachés dans leur quantité pure.

Douce musique sucrée. Un essai sur comment composer un décrescendo sans point de culmination. Lentement et précisément glisser loin, en ne s’arrêtant nulle part.

LE QUATUOR À CORDES N ° 2 (2009 pour le Quatuor Diotima, commande d’État de France pour le Festival Les Musiques à Marseille) est écrit pour le Quatuor Diotima comme une pièce sportive. Après un début charmant, il devient un défi de plus en plus physique pour les interprètes qui jouent tremoli presque sans interruption, jusqu’à ce que la musique atteigne le groove rythmique final : disparaissez/sortez de là !

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released July 20, 2018

Quatuor Diotima

Yun-Peng Zhao (violin)

Constance Ronzatti (violin)

Franck Chevalier (viola)

Pierre Morlet (violoncello)

recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Paris, December 5 & 6, 2016

Recorded and mixed by Camille Lézer

Mastered by Rashad Becker

Cover Photo: Sandro Zanzinger

Artwork: Joanna John

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