Creation : 17 October 2010, Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Duration : 2′
Wave of passions for marimba, vibraphone and rattlesnakes
Wave of Passions was composed for the 25th Anniversary of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, where I was composer in residence in 2008 and 2009. For the composition of this piece, I had two conditions to fulfil:
- the piece had to begin and end with the first chord of Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner’s opera,
- it was supposed to last two minutes.
In Wave of Passions, I tried to create a new meta-instrument by combining a marimba and a vibraphone. I wanted to express the permanent fluidity of the sound material generated by the decomposition of the Tristan und Isolde chord and to represent the energy curve of the ebbing waves.
Malika KISHINO