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So Mad

Szymon Kaça: Bass clarinet  
Franco Venturini: Piano

Sombra Fuga

Perfondo for tuba and live electronics

Excerpt of world premiere of Chanson d'orage performed by Daniel Hope and Lorenza Borrani, violins. Commissioned by the Savannah Music Festival. Scores and parts and more info available available at www.alexandradubois.com

Chanson d'orage for two violins(EXCERPT)

For bass clarinet, double bass, piano, and percussion.

Performed by Anthony Thompson, Adam Scime, Wesley Shen, and Dan Morphy as part of the Curiosity Festival's finale "Metal," presented by the Toy Piano Composers.

Recorded by John Gray at Heliconian Hall, Toronto, ON, April 9, 2016.

microlattice (bass clarinet, double bass, piano, percussion)

Performers: East Side Quartet

Program Notes:
This two-movement work explores the energy in sunlight. The first movement, titled Reflect, focuses on the frenetic, scattered motion of light waves. The music contains only a few short gestures, but it jumps to and between them at speed, as if it were following a ray of light over contrasting surfaces. Each gesture is imbued with that same, active motion, exemplified by the use of extreme ranges in the piano and tightly interlocked rhythms in the ensemble. Contrarily, the patient second movement, titled Absorb, acts as a solar-powered circuit. The music begins in the low register and breathes slowly while the circuit receives and stores energy. As the power accumulates, the electricity begins to hum, an effect that is personified by drones in the violin and viola. Finally, after flickering on and off, the movement climaxes with a powerful release of energy, followed by a steady, sequential descent in register as the circuit runs out of power.

Sunburst for piano quartet

For Two Double Basses
Recording performed by Corin Long and Michael Tiepold.
Commissioned by Konzerthaus Dortmund
First Performed 17 February 2006, in Konzerthaus Dortmund, by Corin Long and Michael Tiepold.

Blue And Gray (2005)

SENTIRE CON TATTO - di Daniela Terranova
String Quartet (2019)
Commissioned by Regia Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna
Performed by QUARTETTO PROMETEO (Giulio Rovighi, Aldo Campagnari, Massimo Piva, Francesco Dillon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbPx7orR7Y8

Sentire con tatto (string quartet)

Of definitions of “ground” was composed in reaction to the sound of the electrical utility frequency or ‘mains hum’, which can sometimes be heard through loudspeakers and amplifiers. It is generally considered an ‘unwanted’ noise, often caused by interconnection of electrical equipment that results in there being multiple paths to the ground, also known as a “ground loop”. Many of my concert experiences, as a composer or listener, have been coloured by trying to eliminate or ignore this sound. And so, I wanted to create a work where this sound is instead the focus. The harmony of the work is built around this hum and its harmonic series, and much of the instrumental writing attempts to simulate related electroacoustic phenomena, such as harmonic distortion and feedback. 

Because the electrical utility frequency is different in different countries (for example, in North America it is 60 Hz and in Europe it is 50 Hz), there are two different versions of the score, depending on where the piece is performed. In reflecting on the way this sound connects us to place, the work subtly incorporates field recordings which also differ between the two versions, linking to the sites of the premiere performances in Québec and Belgium. The piece is then a meditation on the way sound can “ground” us or connect us to a feeling of familiar ground.  

Of definitions of “ground” was commissioned by Le Vivier for Ensemble Hopper with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Recording: 10 May 2019, Église Sacré-Coeur, Chicoutimi. Recording engineer: Pascal Beaulieu

Of definitions of "ground" (60 Hz version)- Ensemble Hopper

performed by Matthew Olyver and Irantzu Agirre

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