Slow Gist

for double-bass, 3D Speaker and computer electronics
composed 2016; duration 20 minutes
world premiere April 21 2016 at Judson Memorial Hall, Manhattan, New York
Drew Gress – double-bass, Paul Geluso – 3D Sound Object sound diffusion
Lars Graugaard – computer electronics

The piece is perceived in the performance space as a vertical line that extends from the suspended 3D Speaker down to and through the double-bass player located directly below. This sonic volcano immediately suggested the sectional development of the piece, as a huge compression of time:

• plateau
Heat – Liquid
• active
Cool – Solidification
• dormant
• extinct
Stasis

The wide range of the double-bass and its exceptional capacity for taking on a variety of roles is deployed in the various sections. Increasing viscosity as a process of solidification, for instance, can be brought into music’s performative areas of time, articulation and phrasing, but also into material areas of note selection, tempo and harmonic speed. The piece is decisively performative and a vehicle for the descriptive virtuosity in the broadest sense of the player, the sound diffusion system and the computer electronics.

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