Lukas Ligeti says of the fourth work in his cycle of ‘overpainting’ compositions, which he began in 2007: "The inspiration comes from the visual arts: the Vietnamese-American artist Dinh Q. Lê, who died in 2024, cut up and interwove photographs to create complex structures that no longer reveal a clear hierarchy of foreground and background. Lisa Corinne Davis paints city map-like patterns and covers them with layers of colour. Such concepts serve me as a starting point for a musical superimposition of different sound processes. Elements repeat themselves in interwoven sequences - a distant parallel to minimal music, but with fundamentally complex, non-tonal sound cells. Layering, deceleration and decay create a kind of acoustic granular synthesis - without electronics, using instrumental means alone. In this way, larger structures emerge that were not present in the individual components - a sonic interweaving that only unfolds when heard."
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