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Isambard Khroustaliov: Obsolve

AUDIO (6:51),
21 October 2011

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Isambard Khroustaliov Obsolve

David Hockings percussion

Obsolve is a London Sinfonietta commission generated through the London Sinfonietta's Writing the Future scheme.

This recording features the world premiere performance of Obsolve, recorded live at Kings Place, London on 21 October 2011.

Writing the Future is generously supported by The Boltini Trust, The John S Cohen Foundation, Anthony Mackintosh and Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner.


“To say that force is the origin of the phenomenon is to say nothing. By its very articulation force becomes a phenomenon. ... But in saying this, one must refer to language’s peculiar inability to emerge from itself in order to articulate its origin, and not the thought of force. Force is the other of language without which language would not be what it is.”

Jacques Derrida, Force and Signification from Writing and Difference