Dreams of Machines - Pavel Šnajdr, dir. Wolfgang Heisig, pianola Brno Contemporary Orchestra
Pianola and Ensemble I. Strike II. Two-stroke In its sleep amongst crickets and frogs, and ticking clocks, the orchestra dreams that it is a pianola. An expansive sounding board equipped with hundreds of small hammers, it strikes many sounding bodies, bells, clocks, anvils, nails which in turn strike sadness, loneliness, anger, bombast, despair. These sounds summon inert ghosts of musics from the past, resting everywhere around us, resurrecting them, for a moment. In the second movement, the pianola-orchestra duo awake and, as if by some magical process, transform into a grand mechanical clock powered by a two-stroke chord engine. Gathering speed, the spin and momentum of these cadences propel us far from the night into a new day and new life, however happy, however lonely. Brno Contemporary Orchestra, Pavel Šnajdr, conductor Wolfgang Heisig, pianola https://www.bcorchestra.cz/en/ https://www.trevorgrahl.ca https://www.wolfgang-heisig.de
Pianola and Ensemble I. Strike II. Two-stroke In its sleep amongst crickets and frogs, and ticking clocks, the orchestra dreams that it is a pianola. An expansive sounding board equipped with hundreds of small hammers, it strikes many sounding bodies, bells, clocks, anvils, nails which in turn strike sadness, loneliness, anger, bombast, despair. These sounds summon inert ghosts of musics from the past, resting everywhere around us, resurrecting them, for a moment. In the second movement, the pianola-orchestra duo awake and, as if by some magical process, transform into a grand mechanical clock powered by a two-stroke chord engine. Gathering speed, the spin and momentum of these cadences propel us far from the night into a new day and new life, however happy, however lonely. Brno Contemporary Orchestra, Pavel Šnajdr, conductor Wolfgang Heisig, pianola https://www.bcorchestra.cz/en/ https://www.trevorgrahl.ca https://www.wolfgang-heisig.de