Zerstorung Des Zimmers / Der Zeit

Christian Ofenbauer - Destruction Of The Room / Of Time. As enigmatically abstract and hermetically beautiful as Christian Ofenbauer's music may occasionally

be, so sensitively does it nevertheless react to the context in which it is created, to the performers for whom it is conceived, to its contextual framework. Granted, everything composed communicates, even if through an ostensible refusal to express itself. Yet Ofenbauer has numerous series of works that could even intertwine and whose components are interrelated, such as the series of BruchStücke ("BrokenPieces") and the six Streichquartettsätze ("String Quartet Movements"); compositions that

enter into a musical exchange, refer to each other or diverge, in which common ideas are renegotiated and events developed further. This also applies to the three musical entities with the collective title Zerstörung des Zimmers / der Zeit ("Destruction of the Room / of Time"), that quotes the stage directions for the final scene of Bertolt Brecht's Fatzer material.