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Gestures You Made

By thisisuser on November 27, 2005

for oboe and interactive computer (max/msp/jitter)
composed 2005/06; duration app. 14 minutes
world premiere february 12 2006
Dark Music Days 2006, Reykjavik (Iceland)

commissioned and premiered by Eydís Franzdóttir

The musical interactivity between the instrument and the computer has been expanded to also include the physical gestures of the player. Towards the end of the piece – during and open-form section – the player makes a series of dramatic gestures, to impart a combination of assertion and exhaustion. These physical gestures are transformed into sound gestures through a technique of computer vision, and thus emphazises the effort and conclusions that dominate last part of the piece. A technique of enhancement of the oboe is used in the preceeding sections, whereby the oboe both dominates the direct reflection caused by its epressive playing, but also the different backdrops, that in turn serves as defining the overall character of the sections. ‘Gestures You Made’ is dedicated to Eydís Franzdottír.

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