Quiet Voice

for clarinet and interactive computer (max/msp/jitter)
composed 2010; duration 14 minutes
world premiere october 26 2010
Interactive Soloist Series, New York University Steinhardt (USA)
commissioned by New York University Steinhardt, premiered by Esther Lamneck

The first and last of the work’s three parts share the same emotion label and musical material. However, while the writing of the first part is sustained and quite sensual, the last is subdued, interrupted and hesitant. Ample microtonal fluctuation accompanies the soloist in both parts, who in turn makes use of very slow half- and quartertone glissandi. The middle section is very dramatic with large skips, loud dynamics and searing effects of timbre trills and tremolos. The computer part follows the soloist closely, making use of spectral ‘snapshots’, transformed and effect processed by player interaction. Running histograms keeps track of performance details, as well as note duration and tonality distribution.

Decision on key score features relating to common emotion recognition in music was made on basis of the guidelines provided by the emoter-composer compositional tool.

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