“
Dumitrescu’s music is spectral,
electroacoustic, but above all it is a coherent
totality grounded in a different conception. Of all
living composers, Dumitrescu is the one who has most
exploded sound. Dumitrescu's work is a negation,
from the depths, of everything in contemporary music
symptomatic of distraction, of banalisation, and of
a radical loss of purpose. His music is not a new
convolution in the knot of modern music, but an
unravelling of the curse. (...) One of the
first pieces I heard was “Pierres Sacrées”; I
was very struck - as were many other people - by the
sound of this music. It seemed quite unlike the
usual sound of contemporary composed music. It had
far more distortion, noise and violence. There
seemed to be a shift away from stable fundamental
frequencies, and a greater emphasis on the unstable
aspects of sound...”
Tim HODGKINSON - RESONANCE - London