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Octavi Rumbau
Five movements on pendulum motion, for solo cello and fixed electronics
UES105884-141
Type: Noten
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 16
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Five movements on pendulum motion, for cello and electronics (2019) presents a solo concert for cello with an octophonic electronic device based on the phenomenon of pendular waves. As an introduction to the piece, the composer quotes from the text of one of the Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations: «Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion. One might call this kinetic art and the choreography of the dance of the pendulums is stunning!» This kinetic activation of a pendular choreography is the generating idea of a work in which, as in a baroque suite, each of the five component movements are associated with a different dance. The fourth movement consists of a homage to Cellogram (1971), by James Tenney, one of his Postal pieces developed from ideas of internal canonical structure and of the reproduction of microphones on a large scale (advancing in time, to a good degree, the application of fractal designs to composition) and which, like a Zen koan, is ambiguous and paradoxical.
World Premiere on November 23, 2019 by Erica Wise in Hangar | Centre de producció i recerca d'arts visuals (Barcelona/Spain)
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Type: Noten
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 16