Eliane Radigue

Abstract

uration we are continually under. In a way, Matthias Kranebitter brings into the context of contemporary written music an iconoclastic critique of the values and rites inherited from – and still present in – Western classical music, with its clear, delimited context. Relying on plunderphonics – that is, the use of sampled material as a means of accessing different referential spaces – Kranebitter includes the extramusical, the social, even the scientific, all fields in which sound is a discursive agent. The pieces on this album invite the listener to engage with the world through music and sound in its multiple spaces of signification, while also acknowledging the privileged role of music in the discursive sonic treatment of ideas.