Works

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass

2 Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone

Performer(s)

“Kippfigur” (in English, counter changes) is a concept from the perception psychology that denotes an optical illusion. By changing the perspective and arbitrary movements of our eyes we are able to “flip over” the image. The same figure at the paper will be double perceptioned without our direct influence on the changing process. The challenge to translate such a phenomena to the music was to concentrate the attention not only on the sound but on the silence as well – the endotopic (inside) and the exotopic (outside) area’s as described by Paul Klee. The idea of the double meaning lead me to the creation of a dichotomy between some parameters. Sound and silence, or the absence and the presence of a single tone can be seen in this context has a consequence of this idea. The note Eb3 plays a central role in the whole piece. Played by all the saxophones, each one with different durations, the end of the tone produces a space movement assigning the silence a shape Stillness is no longer the absence of sound but the beginning of silence. The attempt to make such a visual illusion sounding represents a challenge that drives the creativity to look for compositional decisions emerging like metaphors of the visual world. Luís Antunes Pena

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Kippfigur	Premiere	2004/Oct/09	Philharmonie Essen		Essen	Germany	Koh-i-noor Saxophone Quartet: Frido ter Beek (alto saxophone), Michiel van Dijk (alto saxophone), Sander Beumer (tenor saxophone), Marc Scholten (baritone saxophone)	Notes
Kippfigur	Performance	2007/Sep/14	Miso Music Portugal - Música Viva 2007 Festival	French-Portuguese Institute	Lisbon	Portugal	Saxofínia: José Massarão, José António Lopes, Mário Marques, Alberto Roques (saxophone)	Notes