Lorenz Mueller - Rhythmic Music

All pieces are played electronically

4 Compositions (2008)

1. - Beginning with a C - major - chord, the piece gets faster and louder.

2. - The three accompaning voices play the same motives.

3.- This piece is written in a classical ABA - form.

4. - Starting with the crazy speed of 500 bpm, the piece gets slower. You can hear a row of 16 notes which is played continously. In the end, the pieces gets even faster than it has been at the beginning.

A Tribute to Nancarrow (2009)

Conlon Nancarrow (1912 - 1997) was a US - born composer who lived in Mexico. There he created one of the most amazing ouvres in classical music. Since perfomers had always had difficulites playing his rhythmically extremly complex pieces, he began to write for the Player Piano, which uses piano rolls. He often produced canons with complex tempo ratios and accelerandi as well as ritartandi.

In this piece, there are four voices, all of them play the same motives, but with different speeds: The highest voice starts with 90 bpm, the second with 150, the third with 120 and the lowest with 257 bpm. When finished, the voices switch their tempi: the highest replays the theme with 257 bpm, etc. So, they end at the same point.

Another Tribute to Nancarrow (2009)

At the beginning, there are two accompaning voices, the "theme" is very complex. When finished, the theme is replayed, but faster, and transposed. When becoming extremely fast, a fourth voice enters, playing rapid arpeggi.