Name: Silent Echos (2023) by Zheng Wei
Duration: 2 min 8 s
Description: Silent Echos (2023) for violin and fixed media

Silent Echos (2023) for violin and fixed media 

Silent Echos (2023)

"Craco", from Hauschka's latest studio album, 'Abandoned City'. Get it today at www.smarturl.it/abandonedcity

Hauschka - "Craco" (Live from 89.9 KCRW — 4/22/14)

Ariel Horowitz: Bach Sonata in A minor, BWV 1003: Grave

Performed by Galya Bisengalieva (violin) and London Contemporary Orchestra, conducted by Hugh Brunt.

Recorded and broadcast live in concert by BBC Radio 3 on 8 January 2016.

SHADES LENGTHEN 
for violin solo and ensemble

I have a tendency to begin new pieces by imagining music in quite visual terms. Not in any pictorial or illustrative sense, but in a more abstract way, thinking about foregrounds, backgrounds and planes in between, and considering how different elements within a piece might be made to interact, overlap and sit alongside one another.

While working on this piece I was thinking explicitly about line and shadow. The solo violin is almost always heard distinctly in the foreground, voicing clearly articulated arcing lines of sound. Parts of these lines are often picked up by instruments in the ensemble, ‘shadowed’ and heard again in canon or in stretched elongated forms. The ensemble also creates varied kinds of sound surfaces upon which the solo line and its shadows are cast. Throughout the four movements of the piece there is an overriding obsession with lines in simple rising and falling motions, heard from the violin and threaded through the ensemble at different registers and at varied speeds.

As well as referring to the relationship between soloist and ensemble, I also wanted the title of the piece to evoke a particular quality and mood of evening light, closing of day, when the colours of sky can intensify before draining away. While writing the ending of the piece I was thinking about the subtle sense of acceleration that can be felt while observing the last seconds before sun dips below horizon.


E.F.





Shades Lengthen - 3rd movement

Thick As Thieves

performed by Departure Duo (Nina Guo & Eddie Kass), recorded, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Tipp at Soniferous Studios

Phrases mov. I

Really Craft - Caroline Shaw/quilted by Andrew Yee

L'orchestre Philharmonic de Radio France, cond. Marc Desmons performs an excerpt from Leaf fabric (2017) as part of IRCAM's Manifeste 2019 orchestral workshop.

Originally commissioned by Georg Haas for the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, this excerpt is from the last four minutes of the piece. DM for perusal recording of complete work.

Leaf Fabric (excerpt)

for violin and fixed media, written for and performed by Robyn Bollinger

II. Riverwalk

The Power Of Love (1 min)

Music by Charlie Piper
Performed by Alarm Will Sound
Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 28, 2012

Silent Echos (2023)

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