Time Flakes

for viola solo
composed 2004; duration 7 minutes
world premiere december 9 2004
Instituto Danese, Roma
commissioned and premiered by Maurizio Barbetti

Time Flakes is based on material from my Viola Concerto ‘The Disguise Within’, composed 1999/2000. But my particular fascination for the viola goes back to my first completed work as composer-in-residence where the turning-point of my orchestra piece ‘This Is My Blood’ is an extended solo for the viola section, divisi. Particularly the power of the instruments fascinates me. I feel that the slightly reserved nature of the viola can be transformed into a tremendous personality, when put on great performance demands. One of the ways I achieve this revelation-of-personality is by writing triple and quadruple stops, directing the player to have all strings sound simultaneously, that is, not breaking the chords into a sequence of double-stops.

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