Creation: 25 June 1999 at Villa Medicis, Roma, Italia
Musicians: 6 percussionists
Duration: 12′
Edition: Billaudot
Die Runde Zahl – the round number – refers to the particular arrangement with which the piece was conceived from the outset: the musicians arranged in six equidistant points around the audience, forming an imaginary circle. The space is therefore master of the game, and the practicable possibilities that emerge from it are almost infinite. The composition of the piece is totally based on the calculation of a limited number of combinations – fixed space – and trajectories – temporal space – between these six points. The composition of this piece would have been much more difficult without the working encounters we had with the musicians: speculation requires, at some point, being confronted with the real possibilities of executable writing. The last conclusion is paradoxical: the constraints necessarily disappear when space becomes matter, writing and listening forms.