"funny kind of animated being..." for viola (and electronic)

Premiered at Szene 10, February 10, 2024 IG @filumkonzerte
Ruben Philipp, composer and live electronics
Jing Chen, viola

A courteous occasion makes a paper show no such occasion and this makes readiness and eyesight and likeness and a stool. 
- Gertrude Stein. "A Paper" from Tender Buttons (1914)

The art of memory is like an inner writing. Those who know the letters of the alphabet can write down what is dictated to them and read out what they have written. Likewise those who have learned mnemonics can set in places what they have heard and deliver it from memory. 'For the places are very much like wax tables or papyus, the images like the letters, the arrangement and disposition of the images like the script, and the delivery is like the reading.' - Francis A. Yates. The Art of Memory (1966)

dynamics and intonation are explicitly left to the performer.[...]

this piece can be performed with or without the involvement of electronic facilities (analog or digital) interacting with or accompanying the rendition. [..]

there are two versions of the score [...] version a) should be consulted for practising and rehearsing, while b) [being devoid of most symbolic information included in version a)] should be considered as being the score to be use in (public) performances. 
- excerpt from the performance notes of "funny kind of animated being..."

Ruben Philipp: funny kind of animated being… (2024) Premiere

Georg Friedrich Haas – in vain

Jing Chen is a new music violist based in Germany. She specializes in solo and chamber music with special interest in mixed media. 

For collaborations, kindly send an email to jing.chen.viola(at)gmail.com

Ruben Philipp: funny kind of animated being… (2024) Premiere

Jing Chen Viola

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