"...et in terra pax"

"...et in terra pax" for steel string guitar and acoustic environment
This latest work by Werner Raditschnig is perhaps the most radical and subtle examination of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. The title "---peace on earth" provides the thematic framework and background. It sounds like a call for peace, but listening to it, it is rather an instrumental song of mourning in a world in which the prospect of peace is fading
- An exploration of 8 cantatas by J. S. Bach.
- the prima vista methodology, as an optical approach
- the traditional notation and its information
- the quantitative conspiciuousness of the musicalnotation results in the selection per page image
- a new playing sketch of rhythms and melodic sequences is created
- tone colours are treated instrument-specifically
- repetitions and variations of the motifs are free
- contrasts and differences - not destroying each other
- going in time

The acoustic environment refers to the sounds during the recording that enter the room from outside through a tilted window, e. g. work on the house facade, birds, cars, airplanes. The player's actions are included in the recording and are part of the acoustic utterances.