The Chain of the Spine [2017]
for violin, Paetzold contrabass recorder, cardboard, glass, and sine waves
Written for and performed by Faint Noise
Karin Hellqvist, violin [www.karinhellqvist.com]
Anna Petrini, Paetzold contrabass recorder [www.annapetrini.com]
Malin Bång, cardboard [www.malinbang.com]

In this piece, the instruments are highly individuated noise-producing bodies; autonomous and built of their own limited hoard of materials. The bodies are vertebrae, each with its own irregular, unwieldy, and irreconcilable shape. They are coextensive within a space, and form a vague suggestion of a larger archipelagic shape. Strange alignments emerge between the instruments, but these alignments occur over protracted, warped, smeared swaths of time. Each vertebrae links to another as in an inexorably tangled spine. 

More info here: www.timothy-mccormack.com/chainofthespine

Image: Jason Elewski, still from "Uns-Apparatus" (Dancers: Monica Thomas, Matthew McMunn)

The Chain of the Spine [2017]

Albums out on Another Timbre & KAIROS:

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/mine-but-for-its-sublimation

www.kairos-music.com/cds/0018003kai

The Chain of the Spine [2017]

Timothy McCormack