Year
2014
Duration
10 min
Category
Chamber
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Programme Note
Breath/rebreath explores resonance through the interaction of piano, percussion and strings. Piano and percussion provide strongly resonating instrumental bodies, while the strings respond to and transform this resonant field through changing harmonic and timbral relationships.
Particular attention is given to the string writing, where harmonics, glissandi, variations of finger pressure and other extended techniques continually modify colour and resonance. These interactions generate shifting balances between sustained vibration, harmonic transformation and instrumental texture, allowing the ensemble to pass repeatedly from one resonant state to another.
The title Breath/rebreath evokes this process poetically: not respiration as a literal sonic material, but a sense of renewal, expansion and recomposition as the ensemble continually reshapes its collective sound.
