FOR SUM Solo Instrument Electronics/Computer

JACOB DREAMING

Composition date: 1993

Instrumentation: violin and electronics

Length: 13 minutes

Funding credit: composed in the Studio for elektronischemusik, Basel (funded by the Groupe de Musique Experimental de Bourges). 

Premiere:

Date: May 1996

Venue: Giessen, Germany

Performers: Egidius Streiff, Wolfgang Heiniger

Piece Description: 

In Chagall’s stained-glass windows in the Fraumunster, Zurich, the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob, is portrayed asleep floating among vivid colourful images from his dream.

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