Peter Eotvos - Electrochronicle (CD)

Electrochronicle is a fascinating album, where Eötvös revisits his 1970s electroacoustic works and improvisations.I must confess that I never conduct without a score - if I were to stop watching the score I would surely begin to improvise, and the orchestra would stare and wonder what was happening. Improvisation is the basis of making music, and construction is the basis of composition. Improvisation happens at a given moment and is an unrepeatable process, while the essence of composition is to consider and choose certain sounds through repeating them several times, then writing down these chosen sounds for the performers. But a good performer will relay the composition he has 'practiced' as if he were improvising, as if the sounds were his own ideas.In 1971 I experimented with the various methods of composition from exact construction to free improvisation. I wanted to reach back to the origins, the roots of sounds; to vibration in which rhythm and melody coincide.The most unusual p