FIVE STRING SCULPTURE
composition / sound sculpture (2024)
For acoustic ensemble, loudspeakers and electronic sound
(violin, viola, violoncello, petzold flute, percussion)
composition / sound sculpture (2024)
For acoustic ensemble, loudspeakers and electronic sound
(violin, viola, violoncello, petzold flute, percussion)
Five String Sculpture is a composition / sound sculpture exploring the disposition of two different acoustic formations - one long, straight and slightly angled and another smaller one in a convex shape. Each structure is built from the combination of electronic and acoustic sound that spreads between loudspeaker at one end, and acoustic sound of the instrument at another end. To explore the idea of an electro-acoustic piece in which sound can propagate into various directions and can be localised in a couple of fixed configurations, I have defined 5 “strings” of sound each between one instrument and one loudspeaker, and I have used this to delineate the acoustic space of the work. “String" is therefore the main structural unit of the piece and their activation and musical treatment, shape the overall form of the work.
STRING - instrumentalist can think of string as a metaphor - the string consists of electronic sound and acoustic sound as continuation of it. The string is always triggered on the side of the loudspeaker and it keeps “vibrating” (sounding) through the electronic and acoustic sound of the instrument. Sometimes the short vibration of the string triggers acoustic sound as a “reaction”, and at other times the sound propagates through the string (from the loudspeaker to the instrument and back to the loudspeaker). Two signals should blend and “crossfade” as much as possible, so that the flow doesn’t sound interrupted but continuous and unified (even if short). |
Premiered by the Vortex Ensemble
Geneva, May 2024