Trio - Page 1

Trio is a graphic score that explores relationships between each performer through the juxtaposition of graphic elements that suggest interplay between the three instruments. Each page represents a section in the music, lasting between 30 and 50 seconds with time being indicated horizontally. Although durations is interpreted freely within the proportional framework suggested by the graphics, events requiring synchronicity between players are annotated through a vertical line. Transitions between sections must also be articulated as a synchronous ensemble event. The ensemble should agree on a cueing strategy for each page to facilitate these events.

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The University of Nottingham, Ningbo

Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2011

The Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) at the University of Nottingham is delighted to host the 15^th annual conference of the Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) at the University’s Ningbo, China campus (UNNC).

For more info on Netrooms and to participate in this performance please visit the netrooms blog

An exploration of musical improvisation through the ages and in different idioms…
FAINT: Franziska Schroder (sax), Pedro Rebelo (piano), Steve Davis (drums)

First Page of Shadow Quartet

This work is part of a series of pieces that explore the notion of prosthesis in relation to the interface between acoustic instruments and electronic sounds. The quartet’s resonant materials are derived from four old violins (thank you to Tom Davis for sourcing these!). Resonant analysis from each violin body were used to create pitch and harmonic structures which are explored throughout the piece in an attempt to address the specificity of these instruments’ bodies and their resonant potentials. The four suspended violins act as loudspeakers for the sounding of the work’s electronic part. The relation between the quartet and the four prosthetic violins ranges from ambiguity to contradiction by both extending and reacting against the material played by the quartet.Score and parts can be obtained through the Portuguese Music Research and Information Centre

First Performance: 21.04.07 Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music [Live Recording] (Smith Quartet)
Other Performances:
24.04.07 Project Arts Centre, Dublin (Smith Quartet)
13.03.08 Maerzmusik 2008 Berlin (Smith Quartet)
27.09.08 Musica Viva 2008, Centro Cultural de Belém (Smith Quartet)
11.09.11 Musica Viva 2011, Centro Cultural de Belém (Matosinhos String Quartet)

Shadow Quartet is released in “Smith Quartet – Music for String Quartet & Electronics” Miso Records (mcd024, 10)
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Working Contingencies
20:00, 21 September 2011

First Performance: Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik 2008
Commissioned by Carin Levine

Performance Notes
“Fo(u)r Lines of Collision” explores the space between synchronized and non- synchronized events distributed amongst the four players. By using mixed notational strategies, the piece presents the quartet with both metric time (through stopwatch markings) and flexible time (through events within mobile structures). The performance requires 4 synchronized stopwatches or a common, projected stopwatch. If using multiple stopwatches, these can be started before the performance and first 0ʼʼ marking cued by one of the players.

Fo(u)r Lines of Collission - Page 1

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The piece is part of a project that aims to tell traditional tales and original stories as viewed by Portuguese composers today for both a younger and adult audience… The work is a large scale graphic score for narrator, flute, clarinet, violin, piano, cello and live electronics. The premiere is scheduled for the 11th June 2011 in Cascais, Portugal.

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol1001/home.html

Abstract
This paper addresses mobile audio streaming in the context of sharing a  sense of place. This action is mediated by the network, the body and remote listening. These elements  are essential in the concept and design of a platform for audio transmission ( liveshout ), that aims at intersecting mobility within the realms of radio, network and transmission art.