remnants was composed for virtuoso pianist Zubin Kanga and combines a traditionally notated music solo piano score with annotated, proportionally notated graphic scores for the accompanying ensemble. Like earlier works such as residual drift and detritus, the work is the result of a preoccupation with the “off-space” by-products of the composition process: a consideration of materials at the edge. remnants is a transcription of an improvisation for bass clarinet and electronics based on analysis of its spectral components. The original ephemeral materials were reworked into a fixed notated score.The transcription aimed at clarification, categorisation and annotation of the found sounds rather than intervention or arrangement. Specialised software was developed to transcribe sounds of an audio file into piano notation music notation in an “instrumental resynthesis”.
credits
from field notes: chamber music XIII [2016],
released March 2, 2016
Zubin Kanga: piano
Louise Devenish: vibraphone
Cat Hope: flute
Lindsay Vickery: bass clarinet/electronics
Stuart James: percussion
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