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River and Leaf

By thisisuser on October 27, 1991

for violin solo and flute/alto flute, bass clarinet, horn, piano, percussion, violin, viola and cello
composed 1991/92; duration 12 minutes
commissioned by the International Computer Music Conference 1992;
world premiere Esbjerg, Denmark 1993

This piece is a small-scale violin concerto, and this is evident on several levels. The piece is technically constructed by the means of spectral analysis of a violin tone played in a number of ways – ordinario, col legno, sul ponticello, sul tasto and with a bowed tremolo. These spectra have then been magnified into chords, and the ensemble is in a continuous flow between these spectra. The soloist is therefore at the same time playing by himself, and placed ‘inside’ or ‘on top of’ his own sound, as he is surrounded by the reproduced violin spectra. The sudden impulses and flowing energies of the ensemble becomes a continuos sound-flow, on top of which the soloist looks toward other and more subjective kinds of musical ideas. The image of a leaf floating on the waves of a stream seemed a fitting inspiration for the title for the piece.

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