Mike Svoboda

Music for Piccolo

The two parts of this 10-minute work can be performed together or separately.The first part, From Something Bigger, was written in 2008 on the occasion of a memorial concert for Karlheinz Stockhausen. Years ago, Svoboda was fascinated as a musician in the circle surrounding Stockhausen by how sonorous a piccolo flute can sound. In this work, he also pays reverence to the particular way in which the master from Cologne used to count the things around him - be it sounds or telephone poles flashing by during a trip - and group them into interrelated units.The fascination with number sequences also shows in the second part, Fibonacci Strata, added in 2015 on the occasion of the publication of this edition. Within its rigid structure - each bar being a clearly marked unit - and multi-layered virtuosity, the composer gives the listener the opportunity in two cadenzas to 'regain his or her composure'.