Hanspeter Kyburz

Hanspeter Kyburz's music accomplishes the difficult task of being both unpredictable and irresistible in its direction. It combines a digressive use of tradition, as seen in Ligeti, with the art of pulverizing material and the exploitation of dramatic dimensions of space. Today, the Swiss composer produces a virtuoso synthesis between the German style impatience of trajectory and the French mastery of harmonics. There is no doubt that the influence of science, literature and philosophy are central to his creativity (texts by Hermann Broch, Lindenmayer systems, and the constructivism of Jean Piaget) but these external influences are never used to justify his music.