Ercetin:
Thousand Dead Bodies under my Bed, all Cloaked with the Breath of the Living
Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern (a). Duo für Kornett und Posaune
Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern (b) für simultanes Barockensemble und großes Orchester
Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern (c) für Oboe/Englischhorn, Klarinette, Fagott und Klavier
Resonances (b)

Turgut Ercetin's music is characterized by multifaceted timbres, virtuosity and a field of tension consisting of breaks and bonds. In particular, he illuminates spaces in between in a wide variety of dimensions. The composer explores 'the space between instruments or groups, between harmony and noise [...], between spectra, between what is played and what echoes from the performance venue', as Paul Griffiths explains in the booklet. The series of works "The phoneme between two words" is at the center of the album. The largest part of the work (b) refers to one of Turgut Ercetin's research areas, which deals with architecture that no longer exists, in this case two destroyed Byzantine buildings. Here, the SWR Symphony Orchestra as a modern orchestra meets a baroque ensemble with musicians from the ELISION Ensemble. However, the two formations do not function as opposites, but as interacting nuclei. The smaller parts of the series (a) and (c) serve as fanfare and epilogue: they condense the themes of fusion and separation and allow the musicians of the ELISION Ensemble to return to modern instruments at the end. The Ensemble Musikfabrik can be heard in two works on this album: in "Resonsances (b)" and "Thousand Dead Bodies Under My Bed, All Cloaked with the Breath of the Living". The latter is a reminder of how the past lives on - in art, in memory, in trauma. An interplay unfolds between three interlocking ensembles, characteristics shift from one group to another, while the nature of the entire piece gradually changes.