for two-channel audio
First performance: December 2, 1992, Greenwich House, New York, NY; Friends & Enemies of New Music.
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Piano Sonata for two-channel audio |
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Piano Sonata is a
sonata in the sense of a piece for piano sounds. The first movement,
Vivo, serves as a brief introduction. The main movement,
Largo, consists of sixteen layers of music which unfold at
different rates, overlapping one another to create a constant ebb and flow
of music from many layers. In each layer the piano sounds the eleven
intervals in turn, releasing a halo of tones from the computer
instruments. There are no dramatic moments, no points of arrival, and no
climaxes--only an accumulation of layers at the beginning, and their
dissolution at the end. The piece was realized at the Center for Computer
Music at Brooklyn College, with the invaluable assistance of Curtis Bahn,
to whom the piece is dedicated.
First performance: December 2, 1992, Greenwich House, New York, NY; Friends & Enemies of New Music. |
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