SPLICE V: Performance of Eric Chasalow's "The Wings that Bear the Night Away" for Violin and Fixed Media
Eric Chasalow : The Wings That Bear The Night Away
The Wings That Bear the Night Away is the latest in my long series of works for instrument and fixed media. Each piece seeks some new way of expanding upon the live instrument(s) to modulate its sound and the sense of space. At times, the media adds metamusical meaning by layering modulated text. This latest piece, for violin and fixed media, uses string quartet recordings, which have been processed using granular synthesis, to explore the boundaries between our perception of rearticulated and jittery string harmonies and those that we perceive as modulated and extended. Our sense of the changing pace of the harmonic rhythm is part of what drives the narrative of the piece.
- Eric Chasalow
SPLICE is an organization dedicated to the performance, creation, and development of music for performers and electronics. SPLICE is comprised of an annual Institute designed for performers and composers to study the integration of performance with electronics, an annual two-day Festival of concerts that blend engaging live performances with new technologies, and the Ensemble, a trumpet, piano, and percussion trio focussed on cultivating a canon of the most important works composed for instruments and electronics.
https://splicemusic.org/calendar/festival/v/concert2
