Breath/rebreath

Breath/rebreath

Breath/rebreath

five instruments

five instruments

Small chamber ensemble performing on a concert-hall stage, surrounded by music stands, piano and percussion instruments.

Year

2014

Duration

10 min

Category

Chamber

Five instruments explore resonance and timbral transformation through shifting interactions between piano, percussion and strings, repeatedly renewing the ensemble’s harmonic colour and collective texture.

Five instruments explore resonance and timbral transformation through shifting interactions between piano, percussion and strings, repeatedly renewing the ensemble’s harmonic colour and collective texture.

Five instruments explore resonance and timbral transformation through shifting interactions between piano, percussion and strings, repeatedly renewing the ensemble’s harmonic colour and collective texture.

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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.

From the Score

String texture, accumulation and resonance
Piano, percussion and changing collective energy

Score

Published by BabelScores.