Theory of Becoming

現代の人気映画音楽作曲家によるニュー・アルバム

エフゲニー・ガルペリンは1974年ロシア生まれ。モスクワで教育を受け、1990年にパリに移住しました。弟のサーシャとともに主にフランス内外の映画音楽を手がけ、2017年に映画『ラブレス』でヨーロッパ映画賞作曲賞を受賞しています。

「『Theory of Becoming』のそれぞれの曲は私の人生に大事な役割を果たすと思われる出来事、感動、強迫観念であるに違いありません。この音楽を作曲している間、私は全く新しい、私がまだ知らない音楽を探究しているように感じました。そしてこの作品が出来上がった今、実際は作曲家としての最初の一歩を踏み出した時から私を惹きつけていた道に戻ってきただけだったということがとてもよくわかります」―エフゲニー・ガルペリン
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

Composer Evgueni Galperine has spent much of his career as a film composer, working, often with his brother Sacha, not only in Europe but with such American directors as Barry Levinson and Barry Sonnenfeld. With Theory of Becoming, he turns to abstract composition, and the results are an intriguing mix. Galperines cinematic background is clearly audible; the album comprises short (mostly three- to six-minute) cuts that have some kind of more or less programmatic content, but it is quite a bit more economical than his film music, and it includes electronic sounds and sampling to a greater degree. Much of the music is played by Galperine himself, augmented on various tracks by a trumpet, cello, or voice, but these are not the only acoustic sounds; the sampling aspect is key. Galperine calls his method an "augmented reality of acoustic instruments, created from recordings made with real and virtual instruments. The numerous transformations the instruments undergo allow me to capture their acoustic nature while also adding techniques and colours impossible to produce in reality." Galperines own notes point the listener toward what he had in mind with some of the tracks, and he remains a powerfully representational composer. He is certainly not the only film composer to write independent music, but the mixture here is unique and is highly recommended to those interested in the nexus between film music and the contemporary concert tradition. ECM provides splendid engineering at the Studio EGP in Paris. ~ James Manheim