“Wild Ocean”: an interview with Horatiu Radulescu

Abstract

This text is a much shortened transcription of an interview by the author with the composer Horatiu Radulescu, recorded in Freiburg, Germany, in 1996. The text preserves the unique flavour of Radulescu’s spoken English in an attempt to convey something of the multi-lingual nature of his thought. A secondary text has been added, made up mostly from statements by Radulescu himself and by various performers, musicologists and critics who have written about his music, to provide supplementary material illuminating further the issues that arise in the interview. The discussion centres around Radulescu’s development of the “spectral technique of composition” in the late 1960s and its application in his music.

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