Anders Brodsgaard - Galaxy (2010)

Galaxy was composed as an attempt to challenge the ideologically entrenched thinking in contemporary music, the struggle between the speculatively technical and the spiritually sensual. On one front, in symbolic form, you have the whole Darmstadt School and all it implies, and on the other mentors like Per Nørgård and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Why not bring these two basic techniques together and let the work move between the two poles, alternate between the introverted, passive and exploratory processes like the harmony and the harmonic series, and the extroverted, active and inventive processes like melody and polyphony? In other words, an integration of tonal and atonal music, triads and cluster chords, diatonic scales and twelve-tone rows. It became important in this process that there had to be no ruptures – the music had to develop coherently, imperceptibly grow and contract, smoothly change tempo, move from the simply grasped to the overwhelmingly complicated, finally arriving at a synthesis on the highest plane.

Tracklist:
1 Galaxy (42mn 37s )
2-4 Monk's Mixtures
I. Moving (8mn 41s )
II. Walking (Passacaglia) (9mn 34s )
III. Flying (8mn 49s )