Christian Dierstein: Recital

In “Helicopters and Butterflies” (2012), Ronchetti created a mini drama based on Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky’s “The Gambler”. The soloist acts as musician and actor in a complex “stage set” made of different instruments, where he tragically loses himself in his percussion. “querströmung 2” for drums and audio recorder (2011) by Daniel Ott is the essence of work staged on the bank of the Ruhr, and involved the interpreters holding an acoustic dialogue with the roar of a waterfall at a dam. Daniel Ott compressed the musical material and transferred it to a memorizing interior space, the previous space-specific dialogue is continued in a concert hall.

With “Homework 2” (2010), French composer François Sarhan wrote a work for the body and the voice of the soloist alone.

Finally, Italian-born Pierluigi Billone elicits a variety of timbres from his instruments. For “Mani.Gonxha” (2011) he studied the instrumental possibilities offered by Tibetan sound bowls. He connects the familiar archaisms of their sound with new, still unknown sound spaces. Christian Dierstein is able to trace these spaces. His sensitivity towards the instrument is also appreciated by Salvatore Sciarrino, who dedicated a virtuoso sound study to him with “Il legno e la parola” for marimbaphone and plate bells (2004).