Fugitive Lines

Fugitive Lines

Fugitive Lines

viola

viola

Year

2013

Duration

8 min

Category

Solo

Features

Fleeting viola gestures emerge, bend and disappear before they can stabilise, tracing an unstable continuity between line, contact and resonance.

Fleeting viola gestures emerge, bend and disappear before they can stabilise, tracing an unstable continuity between line, contact and resonance.

Fleeting viola gestures emerge, bend and disappear before they can stabilise, tracing an unstable continuity between line, contact and resonance.

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Programme Note

Fugitive Lines follows short-lived gestures and lines as they emerge, transform and disappear across the viola.

Scored for viola, the work brings viola, solo and line into a concentrated musical relationship. It was commissioned by IMPULS Festival and Ulrich Mertin. The premiere context is documented as IMPULS Festival, Graz, Austria.