Jet Stream

Jet Stream is a painting, horizontal stripes made with brushes of varying thickness (up to several kilometres wide), dangerous yellow - blue - silvery colours, the energy of high altitude winds, the drifting which can be like a Japanese crowd in a one-way street, where only one person (the trumpeter) tries to go in the opposite direction.

At first glance, one might consider Jet Stream to be a trumpet concerto, but Eötvös sees the soloist rather as an embodiment of a fixed point of reference within different flow densities. As is suggested by the title, the piece flows fast, full of energy and lively sounds rush through the voices of the orchestra, with the soloist being, as described by Eötvös, "the eye of the storm".

Jet Stream uses a relatively large orchestra. The woodwind section, in addition to piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet and contrabassoon, is augmented by saxophones, the score moreover calls for an AKAI 5000 sampler and speakers.