Scattering - Reintegration for chamber orchestra - Hanuš Bartoň

“Coined and assigned to the piece only after the score had been completed, the title of Scattering – Reintegration was meant to reflect both the original intention and the composition as it was eventually conceived. The original idea was to write a piece of music where disintegrated fragments of melodies and rhythmical patterns gradually turn into a coherent stream of music. This, however, does not really happen in the resulting composition. The separate fragments merely glide towards and eventually overlap one another, which – although a full integration is not achieved – does render the music more or less continuous. Just as any progress in time is non-continuous, so are all sounds audible at a certain moment always a result of the intersection of virtually independent layers that seem hardly to communicate amongst themselves; rather than that, they seem merely to overlap or immerse into one another only to regain their independence later on. From time to time they seem to intermingle at random. “