Solar Winds

Solar Winds

Solar Winds

cello, piano and electronics

cello, piano and electronics

Year

2025

Duration

35 min

Category

Chamber

Features

Electronics

Augmented

Cello and piano become two active resonating bodies in a performer-controlled cross-projection system traversed by white noise and recordings derived from solar magnetic fields.

Cello and piano become two active resonating bodies in a performer-controlled cross-projection system traversed by white noise and recordings derived from solar magnetic fields.

Cello and piano become two active resonating bodies in a performer-controlled cross-projection system traversed by white noise and recordings derived from solar magnetic fields.

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Solar Winds places cello and piano inside a reciprocal active-amplification system. Each musician can project sound through the body of their own instrument and toward the other, so the two acoustic bodies behave simultaneously as sources, resonators and loudspeakers surrounding the audience.

White noise and recordings derived from solar magnetic-field data pass through wood, strings and soundboards. A sensor attached to the cello bow adds a second level of activation: the resonating body and the mechanism that excites it are both augmented. The electronic system remains discreet, wireless and performer-controlled.