This work was originally for 9 instruments, and Decibel have reworked it to enable it to be performed on five of these. The four absent instruments -a second flute, horn, violin and double bass - are replaced with an electronic rendering of their sounds, created by visualizing the frequencies of the absent instruments and then re-sonifying the image with multiple sine tones. In this way, the reduced ensemble retains the original - though lightly refracted - timbre of the work, embracing the way that harmonic aspects of Scelsi’s music are often nothing but a by- product of a ‘globalising’ approach of all the sounds together, focused around the interval C sharp - E.
credits
from live recordings 2015,
released March 9, 2015
Decibel: Cat Hope - flute, Lindsay Vickery - clarinet, Aaron Wyatt - viola, Tristen Parr - cello, Stuart James - Organ and Dane Yates - Electronics.
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