The concept behind this three part musical
piece is very simple: four different versions of Maurice Ravel's
Bolero played together, in full, for three times (each time they
meet in a different point of the score).The three parts have the
exact same duration (that of the longest version), approximately
15' each.
Boleros was made to be listened to - and enjoyed, especially by
Bolero enthusiasts (and Minimal music fans): the consistency of
tonality and the universal fame of this piece make it unique for
this kind of rework. The result is very tonal music (tuning uniformity
was one of the factors in the choice of versions): an iterative,
fractal Bolero (a piece already based on repetition) which Steve
Reich would probably call Bolero Phase. |
