Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer; Marcus Weiss; Hildegard Kleeb - Peter Ablinger: Verkundigung

Verk�ndigung (Annunciation) is one of the earliest works in Peter Ablinger's catalogue, and a cornerstone for connoisseurs of his work. Composed in 1990, in Verk�ndigung the groundwork for his subsequent work is laid out. In exploring noise and densification, Ablinger thematises perception itself: raising awareness about listening and, through listening, about the listener.

'My work on Verk�ndigung began when Marcus Weiss urged me to come up with an improvisation piece. Around that time, I happened upon Domenico Veneziano's painting Verk�ndigung and found my own musings reflected in that painting's stark opposition between symmetrical Renaissance architecture and the free gestures of the angel and the Virgin Mary. At some point, I began striving to dissolve this very opposition of architecture and gesture, aiming for a conception which could contain both elements at once, in every moment - and theoretically in every sound; where one might merge at any moment into the other, or where one may appear in the other's place.' Peter Ablinger