compositions
Baalal - 1982 (23 minutes)
Instrumentation: Tape
Publisher: Chester Music Limited
Sheet Music: Available to hire from Chester Novello. Catalogue No. [Unknown]
First performance: Finnish Broadcasting Company, 7 July 1982
Publisher: Chester Music Limited
Sheet Music: Available to hire from Chester Novello. Catalogue No. [Unknown]
First performance: Finnish Broadcasting Company, 7 July 1982
Programme Notes:
The radiophonic work Baalal is a veritable Tower of Babel of ideas and statements made up of scraps of texts, shards of language and musical memories. The absurd yakking, bellowing, hawking and retching of the text combine with flowing cultural-historical allusions all tossed off with joy and a lack of inhibition worthy of Rabelais.