Search - Akos Rozmann :: Impulsion I, II & III

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Starry Vere | Silver Lake OH USA | 11/04/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Akos Rozmann is a Hungarian-born composer whose postgraduate studies in Sweden led him to settle there. All of his music is either electronic or electro-acoustic, the three `Impusioni' heard here being early exercises in purely synthetic sound which show Rozmann to have a strong sense of structure and narrative fantasy in territory where conventional musical criteria are almost beside the point. The featured item, `Two, with Three Instruments,' is even more impressive, a later piece comprised exclusively of digitally sampled sounds of the organ, piano and zither, with the composer's own voice thrown in for occasional commentary. There is never any sense of gimmickry here, throughout this nine part work one is struck by the symphonic use of the samples and the way they are integrated into what is heard as a totally natural soundscape. Rozmann's name may not be well-known, but this is music of great imagination and structural mastery."