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for three performers (any instruments) composed in 2001 duration: version #1: 10' version #2: 20' The piece uses a CD recording as score. The CD contains 4 tracks composed of field recordings that the musicians play with. There are no direct guidelines, but players should make an idiomatic translation of the CD recording. Throughout the entire piece, the musicians hear the acoustic score through open headphones at a low volume level, so that they can perceive both the CD and the play of the fellow musicians. The CD should not be audible to the public here. Version #1 consist only of the musician's retranslations of the audio score, while version #2 juxtaposes the recordings with the translations. "Travelogues" is dedicated to Jeff Kowalkowski. Complete Instructions:
Travelogues for three musicians with any instrumentation (2001) This piece uses audio tracks as a score. In total there are 4 audio tracks that the musicians are supposed to play with. What they play is open, but it has to be an idiomatic translation of the sounds that are on the CD. In other words, the musicians should try to imitate the sounds on their instruments as closely as possible. The sound tracks are composed of various field recordings that I collected during various trips. Because of the often noisy nature of the sounds, instruments should be preferred that can deliver this quality. The musicians should prepare the piece in advance and determine which musician is imitating which sounds, so that not all three musicians end up imitating the same sound while other sounds remain ignored. The sounds on the sound-tracks have been divided in three layers that are panned to the left, the middle and to the right. This panning should make it easier to differentiate the sounds, but this does not mean that e.g. the sounds panned to the left should be player by one instrument only. There are two ways how to perform this piece: 1) the musicians are listening to the sound tracks through open headphones at soft levels, so that they can hear as well the soundtracks as well as what the other musicians are doing. The sound track is not audible for the audience. 2) the musicians make a graphic score of what they are going to play and perform it with a stop watch without listening to the original sound tracks. This usually makes it easier to create a chamber-musical situation and to follow attentively to what the other musicians are doing. There are also two versions how this piece can be performed: Version 1, (duration: 20 minutes) The sound files and the instrumental translations are played alternatingly in the following order: Sound file 4 Instrumental translation of sound file 1 Sound file 3 Instrumental translation of sound file 2 Sound file 2 Instrumental translation of sound file 3 Sound file 1 Instrumental translation of sound file 4 In this version the audience hears both versions, the original sound tracks and the instrumental translations. Version 2, (duration: 10 minutes) In this version the only the instrumental translations are performed. The audience therefore never hears the original sound files”. Instrumental translation of sound file 1 Instrumental translation of sound file 2 Instrumental translation of sound file 3 Instrumental translation of sound file 4 |
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