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At Swim-Two-Birds: double concerto for violin & cello by Pascal Dusapin
‘I’ll never write a motif, rhythm, or chord that I cannot sing,’ Pascal Dusapin (Nancy, 1955) once said. And indeed, all his music has a vocal, cantabile quality. On Saturday 30 September the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra will première his concerto At Swim-Two-Birds for violin, cello, and orchestra in Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Soloists are the violinist Viktoria Mullova and the cellist Matthew Barley, to whom the piece is dedicated. The première is broadcast live on Radio 4, organizer of the concert series NTR ZaterdagMatinee.
As a child Dusapin was so impressed when he first heard a jazz trio, that he decided there and then to start playing the clarinet. From his tenth he developed a passion for organ, but only when he heard Arcana by Edgard Varèse, he knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life composing.
Colourful tapestries
Instead of going to a conservatory – which he deemed too academic – Dusapin studied art history and aesthetics at the Sorbonne. He developed his compositional skills mainly on his own, yet did take some seminars with Iannis Xenakis between 1974 and 1978. He considered the Greek composer to be the living heir of Varèse. Unlike his heroes, he was not interested in using electronics in the compositional process. With purely physical instruments Dusapin creates highly organic music, full of colourful sound tapestries and lyrical solos.
He composed At Swim-Two Birds at the request of the violinist Viktoria Mullova and the cellist Matthew Barley. At first Dusapin had doubts about writing yet another piece for solo strings. Having recently finished both a violin and a cello concerto, he ‘felt a bit swamped by these two instruments’. When Mullova and Barley opined that the combination of a violin and a cello would make ‘a new instrument altogether’, he accepted the commission after all: ‘This changed everything.’
Extravagant narrative
While composing, Dusapin stumbled upon the experimental novel At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien from 1939. This is literally swarming with unlikely figures and characters, who in the end take over the initiative from the author. It is a mixture of farce, satire and fantasy and ranks as one of the important exponents of postmodern literature.
‘I was struck by the narrative and formal extravagance of this book’, says Dusapin. But though he took its title, he never intended his concerto to be a musical equivalent. Rather more he was taken in with the way the characters become entangled with each other. – ‘And then, of course, there are two birds in the title…’.
Sensually intertwined
The number two not only applies to the soloists, but also to the form of the concerto. Instead of the current three, At Swim-Two-Birds has only two movements, both slow. Dusapin gives a lot of room to the soloists, who often play virtuoso solo lines against a silent orchestra. At other times the two ‘birds’ sensually intertwine in soaring duets, the orchestra moving in so cautiously you hardly notice they’re taking part in the argument.
The overall pace is slow, but towards the end vehement tapping on a tambourine triggers a faster tempo, while the dynamics become louder. The solo violin ‘breaks loose’ in staggeringly virtuosic figurations, giving the orchestra and fellow soloist the go-by. Yet they pull themselves together quickly, ‘overtaking’ the violin and restoring the quiet atmosphere. The concerto ends with softly rumbling drums and gongs, the string orchestra playing a chord that slowly fades away into nothingness.
I hope the actual performance will be as enchanting as is promised by the score.
Saturday 30 September, 2.15 p.m. Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Radio Filhamonisch Orkest / Markus Stenz
Ligeti: Lontano
Dusapin: At Swim-Two Birds
Larcher: Symphony nr.2 “Kenotaph’ (NL premiere)Photo credit: Jean Radel
#AtSwimTwoBirds #MatthewBarley #NTRZaterdagMatinee #PascalDusapin #ViktoriaMullova
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Markus Lanz hat heute Abend der rechtsextremen Markus Frohnmaier von der AfD eingeladen.
Wollte nur, dass ihr das wisst - wie Lanz und das @ZDF dem vorauseilenden Gehorsam frohnen - äh - frönen.
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Markus Lanz hat heute Abend der rechtsextremen Markus Frohnmaier von der AfD eingeladen.
Wollte nur, dass ihr das wisst - wie Lanz und das @ZDF dem vorauseilenden Gehorsam frohnen - äh - frönen.
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Markus Lanz hat heute Abend der rechtsextremen Markus Frohnmaier von der AfD eingeladen.
Wollte nur, dass ihr das wisst - wie Lanz und das @ZDF dem vorauseilenden Gehorsam frohnen - äh - frönen.
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Markus Lanz hat heute Abend der rechtsextremen Markus Frohnmaier von der AfD eingeladen.
Wollte nur, dass ihr das wisst - wie Lanz und das @ZDF dem vorauseilenden Gehorsam frohnen - äh - frönen.
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I'm really happy to share with wou a new article on our @karakun #DevHub:
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I'm really happy to share with wou a new article on our @karakun #DevHub:
Learn how to integrate #AI into your existing #SpringBoot applications using #SpringAI — without major rewrites. A practical developer guide: https://dev.karakun.com/2026/02/20/Retrofitting-AI.html -
I'm really happy to share with wou a new article on our @karakun #DevHub:
Learn how to integrate #AI into your existing #SpringBoot applications using #SpringAI — without major rewrites. A practical developer guide: https://dev.karakun.com/2026/02/20/Retrofitting-AI.html -
I'm really happy to share with wou a new article on our @karakun #DevHub:
Learn how to integrate #AI into your existing #SpringBoot applications using #SpringAI — without major rewrites. A practical developer guide: https://dev.karakun.com/2026/02/20/Retrofitting-AI.html -
Markus Söder gratuliert sich zum Geburtstag selbst.
Der Selbstgratulant. Ein weiter Schritt in Richtung 🍊
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I'm sure, Mohini Dey is the reason, why bass players all over the world are throwing themselves off the mountain like lemmings.
#^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pup7U7QgGFg
#bassguitar #bassists #mohinidey #jazzfusion #MaMoGi -
I'm sure, Mohini Dey is the reason, why bass players all over the world are throwing themselves off the mountain like lemmings.
#^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pup7U7QgGFg
#bassguitar #bassists #mohinidey #jazzfusion #MaMoGi -
I’m proud to share that the early access release of our new book, Applied AI for Enterprise Java Development, is now available on O’Reilly!
Check it out, and let me know what you think – feedback from early readers is invaluable!
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/applied-ai-for/9781098174491/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #EnterpriseDevelopment #AppliedAI #EarlyAccess #OReillyMedia #Java #aiml
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I'm a big fan of Moonrakers and IV Studio just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their new game Brink! It's trying to combine several genres - maybe too many (worker placement with hexploration, trading, negotiating, voting, etc.), so I'm not totally convinced that it will work. But definitely looks interesting!
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I'm genuinely excited about these #cellularIoT news, because it gives me real hope that the downsizing we went through last year could be the only one needed. It gives my colleagues and me a positive outlook for this year.
And I work on both these products. So.
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I'm also a huge huuuuuge fan of the last Magnolia Electric Co album "Josephine", which I always understood to be about Napoleon's lover, but might actually just be about a girl Jason Molina knew... So maybe my interest in Napoleons inner world of emotions is entirely misplaced to begin with... #magnoliaelectricco #josephine #music
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I'm happy to see that #SoCraTes2023 created quite some new sign-ups on Mastodon, because the conference didn't really happen on Twitter and there were many attendees who created their Mastodon accounts because of the conference. Only 13 attendees tweeted during the conference. In my book, the SoCraTes Germany community has left Twitter and I hope this can serve as a good example for other #SoCraTes events around the world: Mastodon is ready to maintain the post-event connections.
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I'm both glad and annoyed I'm don't have to manage systems.
On one hand, I don't have to deal with the Barracuda and Fortinet problems. On the other hand, I watch as everything we use turns out to have major vulnerabilities, and have no reassurances it will fixed anytime soon.#fortinet #FortinetVPN #barracuda #barracudanetworks #esg #vpn #sysadmin #vulnerability
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I'm honestly not sure how I haven't crashed yet, but I think that happens tomorrow. This is training for #Defcon so I only need to follow the 2-1 rule.
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Bei Markus Lanz auf dem Sessel heute wieder mal der Pinsel der AfD.
@ZDF Wann lernt ihr endlich mal einen Jota dazu, HABE ICH EUCH GEFRAGT??!!!
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Bei Markus Lanz auf dem Sessel heute wieder mal der Pinsel der AfD.
@ZDF Wann lernt ihr endlich mal einen Jota dazu, HABE ICH EUCH GEFRAGT??!!!
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Bei Markus Lanz auf dem Sessel heute wieder mal der Pinsel der AfD.
@ZDF Wann lernt ihr endlich mal einen Jota dazu, HABE ICH EUCH GEFRAGT??!!!
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Bei Markus Lanz auf dem Sessel heute wieder mal der Pinsel der AfD.
@ZDF Wann lernt ihr endlich mal einen Jota dazu, HABE ICH EUCH GEFRAGT??!!!
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Think I'm gonna try my hand at making St. Cyprian's oil. I hear it's good for enhancing spiritual gifts and abilities, as well as enhanced connections to spirits.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress
This picture is like #telegraphroad from the #DireStraits in a painting. #AmericanProgress
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress
This picture is like #telegraphroad from the #DireStraits in a painting. #AmericanProgress
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress
This picture is like #telegraphroad from the #DireStraits in a painting. #AmericanProgress
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Now I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that the Danes do it. After all, I have more relatives in Denmark than in Germany 😂 #ehfeuro2024 #FRADEN
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Eventuell sagt nicht jeder/m der Name Peter Beuth was. Der CDU-Mann war von 2014 bis 2024 Innenminister in Hessen. Er ist maßgeblich dafür verantwortlich, dass die hessische Polizei die Datensoftware des US-Unternehmens Palantir nutzt. Heute ist Beuth Lobbyist für die globale Berateragentur pwc. pwc und palantir arbeiten eng zusammen.
So funktioniert Politik in diesen Zeiten
#palantir #beuth #hessenLink 1 https://www.pwc.de/de/pressemitteilungen/2024/pwc-deutschland-erweitert-expertise-mit-peter-beuth.html
Link 2 https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/20183373-partnerschaft-datenmacht-mega-deal-ki-bringt-allianz-tech-beben
Link 3 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-beuth-ba3080279_palantir-und-polizei-hessendata-als-vorbild-activity-7326953112739454976-XEGP/?originalSubdomain=de