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for score sample in pdf (pages 1-8) programme note: This quartet for bassoon and string trio operates as a duo between bassoon and violin, in which these instruments are coloured, commentated on, resonated and shadowed by, respectively, viola and cello. The bassoon and violin exist in a world of traditional notation while the musical materials of their auxiliaries ‘float’ in relation to them. I’m seeking simultaneous strictness and looseness, the tightness of the traditionally-scored interactions between bassoon and violin mitigated by the space- time, reactive commentaries of their pairings.
year:
2016
instrumentation:
bassoon and string trio duration:
6'
double duo builds on tag (and release) (2012) and sundry good (2014), works which freed me from the constraints of computer feedback during their composition and the necessity of a conductor during performance. These three works are the basis for further research that will hopefully involve animated scores and fixed media elements.