クリス・デンク

クリス・デンク（Chris Dench、Google翻訳による発声ではクリス・デンチ、1953年 - ）は、イギリスの現代音楽の作曲家。オーストラリア在住。

**略歴**
1953年生まれ。原則的に独学だが、ダルムシュタット講習会に参加し頭角を現す。一時期は奨学金でベルリンとトスカナに住んだが、現在はオーストラリアに移住し、市民権を獲得した。作品はかつてUMPから出版されていたが、近作は公式ウェブサイトとオーストラリア音楽情報センターから
で入手できる。
ブライアン・ファーニホウの影響を強く受け、創作活動を開始する。「フルートソロのためのsulle scale della Fenice」は八分の一音を用いた音列のダイアグラムをフルートソロ一本で渡り歩く難曲である。該当作はperspective of new musicで音源つきで紹介された。その後もピアノ作品やクラリネット作品で、譜面の難解な作品を次々と発表し、「弦楽四重奏曲」はクラーニヒシュタイナー音楽賞を受賞した。
しかし、作風は徐々に軟化し、「バスクラリネットとコントラバスクラリネットのためのsum over histories (2006)」などは、聴覚的にも平易な作品となっている。tzadikからリリースされた近作集は多様な編成が収められてはいるものの、作品は超絶技巧を要求する類のものではない。近年は「ピアノソナタ」などの大作あるいは連作が目立つ。

**作品**

**管楽器**
caught breath of time (flute doubling altoflute) (10′) (1982)
*vier darmstädter aphorismen
**Venezia (flute) (2′) (1986)
**piccolo fragment from Dark Neumes (piccolo) (2′) (1987)
**A.R.T.A.U.D. (bassflute) (3′) (1988)
**gelb : violett (altoflute) (7′) (1989)
*dé/ployé (piccolo) (8′) (1987)
*sulle scale della Fenice (flute) (10′) (1986–89)
*closing lemma (flute) (10′) (1987–91)
*geminy (open-hole altoflute) (18′) (2017)
*geminy A & B (open-hole altoflute) (8′ + 8′) (2017)
*time (solo bass or basset clarinet) (6′) (1979)
*ruins within (clarinet in A) (10′) (1992–94)
*the sadness of detail two versions, one folded, one unfolded (clarinet) (10′) (2002)
*burns (alto saxophone) (6′) (1989)
*'e/meth (oboe or soprano saxophone) (10′) (1995)
*shards (solo recorder: playing bass, tenor, alto, soprano, sopranino, garklein) (10′) (2011–12) excerpted from seven types of time machine

**ピアノ**
topologies (12′) (1978)
*tilt (8′) (1985)
*passing bells: night (12′) (2004)
*Piano Sonata (100′) (2015–16)
*Phase Portraits
**Book One
**zero-knowledge protocols (2′) (1973)
**helical (3′) (1975)
**tenebroso (6′) (1978/2003)
**dancing qualia (10′) (1978/ )
**tiento de medio registro alto (3′) (1978/2003)
**small box of time (8′) (2013/ )
**Pas Seul I: reading Takahashi (3.5′) (1979/93)
**Pas Seul II: vectorial (3.5′)
**Appendix to Book One
**Pas Seul III: rushes (piano duet) (6′) (1979/96)
**Book Two - microsonata
**into the wormworks (6′) (1984/95)
**esperance (4′) (1986)
**E-330 plays (6′) (1991/2003)
**Appendix to Book Two
**mem(e) (5 mins) (bassflute and piano) currently under revision (1994)
**Book Three - the heretical bagatelles
**the heretical bagatelles
**BD & double (4′) (2009)
**AG (3′) (2008/12)
**KS (2′) (2008/12)
**AB 1 (1′) (2014)
**Book Four
**the heart's algorithms (13′) (1993/99–2002)
**ik(s)lands fragment (2′) (1997/98)
**(the) Barry Jones Dances (5′) (2013)

**オルガン**
compostela/finisterre (large organ) (20′) (2005/06 extended 2009)

**打楽器**
small box of time (marimba) (8′) (2013)

**ギター**
severance (8′) (1988–94)
*asymptotic freedom (17′) (1997–99) Red House edition
*fundamental processes (10-string guitar) (17′) edited by Stuart Fisher (2008–16)

**室内楽**
strangeness (string quartet) (25′) currently withdrawn for revision (1985)
*recueillement (flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola, cello, bass) (12′) currently withdrawn for revision (1986)
*funk (bass clarinet and untuned percussion) (10′) (1988–89)
*'atsiluth/shîn (flute, bass clarinet, and piano) (12′) currently withdrawn for revision (1991)
*heterotic strings (flute, cor anglais, bass clarinet, violin, and contrabass, all amplified and uncoordinated) (8′) currently withdrawn for revision (1993)
*from n(ich)t (mezzo-soprano, recorder, guitar) (6′) (1999)
*fauxbourdon/tenebroso (cello and piano) currently withdrawn for revision (8′) (2004)
*Permutation City (percussion duo: playing two marimbas, vibraphone, and two octaves of crotales) (16′) (2005–08)
*Blood music (clarinet, seven-string electric guitar, and quarter-tone vibraphone) (13′) (2005)
*e(i)ther (violin and piano) (13′) (2005)
*an Hypallage (mezzo-soprano, baritone, harp (or piano)) text: Lawrence Sterne (3′) (2008)
*New work (E flat clarinet & soprano saxophone) (6′) in preparation (2015)

**アンサンブル**
symphony for brass (brass ensemble and percussion) (20′) currently withdrawn for revision (1982/ )
*recueillement (baritone voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola, cello, bass) text: Baudelaire (12′) currently withdrawn for revision (1986/ )
*driftglass (solo percussion and five amplified instruments) (10′) (1990)
*planetary allegiances (solo flute and ensemble) (15′) currently withdrawn for revision (1992/ )
*beyond status geometry (percussion quartet) (20′) (1995)
*ik(s)lands (mezzo-soprano and flute, clarinet, guitar, percussion, violin, cello) text: berni m janssen (20′) (1997–98)
*eigenmomenta (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello) (10′) (2000–01)
*light-strung sigils (recorder and flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello) (15′) (2001–02)
*the blinding access of the grace of the flesh (mezzo-soprano and flute, clarinet, guitar, percussion, violin, cello) text: berni m janssen (11′) (2003)
*Agnî (from Agnî-Prometheus-Lucifer) (sixteen instruments) (10′) (2006– )
*flux (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello) (16′) (2016)
*in Platonia (solo guitar (amplified) and flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, celesta/melodica/anvil, violin, viola, cello, bass) (25′) (2011–12)
*crystallisation (baritone and bass voices, and flute/alto/piccolo, oboe/melodica, B flat clarinet/E flat clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello) text: Arthur Haswell (10′) (2011)

**音楽劇**
seven types of time machine (soprano, solo recorder, flute, clarinet, two percussion, violin, cello) text: Arthur Haswell incomplete (50-60′) (2012– )
*diurnal (soprano and drone) text: Arthur Haswell (8′) (2014) excerpted from seven types of time machine
*We, a chamber opera (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass voices, and six percussionists) libretto: Dustine Barnes, after Zamyatin in preparation (80–120′) (2010- )

**オーケストラ**
Symphony 1 (orchestra) (18′) currently under re-orchestration (1977–80)
*Symphony 2: énoncé (sixteen instruments) (18′) currently under revision (1983–84)
*Symphony 3: afterimages (chamber orchestra) (20′) currently under revision (1987)
*Symphony 4: propriocepts (four voices and large orchestra) (21′) (1994–97)

**ディスコグラフィー**
Etceteraから一枚、tzadikから一枚出ている。

**脚注**

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