Press Reviews       AN INDEX OF METALS Press Reviews of the German Premiere on July 15, 2006, at the ISCM World New Music Festival 2006     back    The ensemble musikFabrik celebrates a psychedelic séance—somewhere between Jimi Hendrix, Nina Hagen, and heavy trance rock. Schwäbisches Tagblatt In front of the electronic sounds, which were like a threatening backdrop in space, the ensemble asserted itself, playing more and more furiously (…). It is a mysterious, vexing work that the composer left behind when he died at just forty-one, and the conductor, André de Ridder, and the ensemble musikFabrik offered a gleaming, glittering, flittering performance of it in the Römerkastell (…). Stuttgarter Zeitung Sometimes massive, then barely audible again, the acoustic and visual components are brought by Romitelli into an interplay that produces a kind of artificial synesthesia—“a magma of flowing tones, forms, and colors.” (…) The performance, which lasts just over an hour, is never boring. Süddeutsche Zeitung An Index of Metals is a new “Poème de l’extase,” transcending sensory boundaries (…). Die Zeit A powerful, overpowering piece of music that impresses by the excessive materiality of its sounds and images. (…) Rusty, oxidized surfaces set simultaneous processes of corrosion and fusion in motion in the music, condensed by means of backdrops of electronic noises, which are reinforced in turn by rocking guitar riffs. The singer Barbara Hannigan, in a spot-lit entrance, joins in with the orchestra, combining pop rock and blues, opera-like vocalises, and smoky rhetoric to produce a grand performance. (…) Esslinger Zeitung
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