This piece was inspired by the above ‘untitled’ sculpture of Japanese-American abstract/expressionist sculptor Leo Amino and his works. It is a short electroacoustic piece using string instruments(violin, viola, cello, double bass) and the Japanese ‘koto’. 


A few ideas I came up with to try experiment with and evoke in the piece were...reflections, space, the observer and the observer observing the object (inside and outside), proximity (panning, reverb portraying closer and dry sound vs more distant reverb with wetter, less defined sound) tension with stretched bow and high harmonic pitches in the strings for the wires, smoother lower notes for the smoother parts of sculpture

'inside and outside'

Composer, multi disciplinary artist and music teacher.

'inside and outside'

Eileen Mc Loughlin