About the creation

Collage was first performed in Israel in 1968 (at the Tel Aviv Museum in a concert dedicated to electronic music) by Rema Samsonov (mezzo-soprano), Uri Shoham (flute) and Gideon Steiner (percussion) under the direction of the composer.

In this work the composer tries to combine four sources of sound, differing from each other in context: the human voice (mezzo-soprano), a melodious instrument (flute), various percussion instruments and a magnetic tape (part of which was produced at the Toronto University and completed at the Studios of the Israel Broadcasting Authority). However, the four sound elements are not used in a manner which brings out their sonoric contrasts, but the composer tries rather to blend them into a musical form which stresses the surrealistic character of Yehuda Amihai's-poem, making free use of sonorities which have their source in eastern motives.