Enno Poppe (1969-)
Rundfunk, pour 9 Synthétiseurs

Ensemble Mozaik

Chatschatur Kanajan
Karen Lorenz
Mathis Mayr
Roland Neffe
Enno Poppe
Niklas Seidl
Simon Strasser
Ernst Surberg
Christian Vogel

La fluorescence incandescente de la pochette ne nous trompera pas, nous plongerons bien dans l’immensité spatiale de la synthèse sonore avec ce disque. Constitué d’un triptyque savamment orchestré et mené comme un véritable ouvrage de musique de chambre, il séduira les initiés mais laissera sûrement de marbre, voire atterré les athées du genre, tellement sans concession Enno Pope et ses acolytes opèrent un véritable travail de synthèse sonore sur des synthétiseurs qu’on devine analogique. Chaque variation sonore est alors déployée à la manière d’un véritable geste instrumental. On pourrait y entendre du Gérard Grisey au synthétiseur tellement la dimension spectrale est omniprésente ainsi que le jeu sur la dislocation et reconstruction continue des paramètres du son. Un véritable travail d'orfèvre donc, mais à qui saura en cerner la juste valeur ! (Jérôme Leclair)

Enno Poppe approaches electroacoustic music with an attitude that could be called “sympathetic skepticism.” Although he has been involved since his student days with programming and a wide variety of electroacoustic techniques and instruments (also in his role as a conductor), not one of his compositions until now has been “purely” electronic. In “Rundfunk for nine synthesizers” Enno Poppe uses historical sounds – not historical instruments; the instrumentation consists of nine Computers and nine keyboards. The sounds come from the l960s and 70s: FM synthesis, Minimoog and Piganino. Because no original instruments are used, only computer-generated reconstructions, everything sounds different from the way it did then. The sound is deconstructed and reassembled. The players are not keyboard virtuosos, but rather virtuosos in the use of electronic sounds. Enno Poppe’s “Rundfunk” celebrates musicians and the act of performing, and thus could be called “post-digital” music. It returns human physicality to electronic music in the bodies of those performing it.