Seven Dirty Words 

Matthew Lee Knowles
[2015]



Seven Dirty Words [2015]

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Matthew Lee Knowles
[2016]

Music To Accompany Your Listening Of This Music

https://cassandramiller.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/about-bach/

This string quartet is an expansion of a solo work for viola (of the same name) which was commissioned by philanthropist Daniel Cooper for violist Pemi Paull. It’s a piece about process, about Pemi’s musicality, about Bach of course, and in the end, about the Quatuor Bozzini.

I first took a recording of a short phrase (the first phrase in major) of the famous Chaconne from Bach’s Partita no. 2, performed live by Pemi. I then meticulously transcribed the recording with the help of some software — this is a process I’ve developed over some years to apprehend the exact rhythmic musicality of a performance, capturing as well various artifacts such as the viola’s upper partials as they change within each bow-stroke.

The opening of the piece is simply this transcribed phrase of Bach, with a harmony of my own making, which turns the phrase into a gently jaunty chorale. From there the phrase goes through a somewhat inaudible process that is simply let to run, until it runs itself out. It’s a constant meandering, a non-developmental piece in an extreme sense. My interest (and freedom) in exploring such a simple form comes directly from working with the Quatuor Bozzini, and this string quartet version is a souvenir of gratitude for years of great inspiration.

About Bach

About Bach, Quatuor Bozzini, premiere, excerpt: last 6 minutes (2015)

Lyrics by Yona Wallach
Vocals: Maya Penington and Michal Weinberg

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Viola, voice, text - Maya Felixbrodt

Do they
do they 
Know
do they know how we
do they, do they know
do they know
how we
do they
do they know
do they know how we
know how we
do they
do they know 
do they know how
we
how we 
how we how we
how we how we  how we
do they
do they know
do they know
how we how we planned it
how we has it all planned
do they know how we
do you
do you know
how
how blind
do you 
do you know how blind blind
how blind do you know
didn’t I didn’t 
didn’t know how
how much
didn’t
how blind how blind how blind
what are you
you miss
how they they they they
how they
they are evacuated
expelled
their their their
their
houses are
are are are evacuated
there is no no no
nothing no
justice
no no no no its
its you you you you 
you are the
I am the we are
In change its
Our our our fault fault
Blame its
You you you 
You I I I we

Do they know

I made this using a Make Noise 0 coast, Moog Mother 32, Yamaha DX, OP-1, PO 32, PO 12, Korg SQ 1, Behringer Xenyx 802, Boss DD 6, Strymon BlueSky, Tascam DR-44WL.
performed and recorded live by Seán Clancy on 30 March 2017 in Centrala Art Gallery, Birmingham.

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