Episoden, Figuren (1993)
(for accordion)

Regardless of whether you love or dislike this sound generator: the mixture of belly organ, lap harmonium and knee harmonica remains unique (... and has done so since the prehistory of musical activity, as the short punch line from Italy tells us: Who is probably the oldest instrument in the world? The accordion. None has so many wrinkles).

Enchanted by such antique charm, it was only natural that I should concern myself with the rhetoric of musical figure thinking. I therefore endeavored to compose with concrete sound figures and to weave them into episodes of various durations. Because the accordion is an instrument that allows different sound effects with the left or right button manual, the figures move from side to side and thus change according to the register and tessitura.

You smile involuntarily when you think about the accordion. It is as if all the pieces played on it had their roots either in folk or popular music. I don't dislike this pre-programmed misinterpretation: a new New Music would need many such sound generators.

M.K.
(Translation by Edition Peters)