Bryce Dessner

Born: 1976, Cincinnati, Ohio

Wires

• Composed: 2016
  
• Premiere: September 24, 2016 by Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by Matthias Pintscher.
• Duration: approx. 14 minutes

Bryce Dessner considers Wires to be his most avant-garde work to date. The commission by the Ensemble intercontemporain and ZaterdagMatinee provided an opportunity for Dessner to move out of his comfort zone and to write some thing using a totally new musical language. Dessner combines his influences from New York with the European Avant-Garde to create a wonderful fusion of rhythm and sound

The focus of the piece is quite literally wires: wires that connect us, wires that make sound and wires that separate us from one another. Three wired instruments stand in the foreground of this triple chamber concerto: the electric guitar, the harp and the piano.