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Sogno 102

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posted on 2023-09-04, 11:51 authored by Cat HopeCat Hope

'Sogno 102' (2013) is a composition for bass flute, bass clarinet, cello, viola, piano and electronics.

The piece engages 5 non amplified acoustic instruments, who are sampled via microphone as notated on the score, and converted into a sine tone, controlled as noted on the score. There is a Max patch provided here to facilitate this, or you can make your own way of doing it. The tones should be played back in stereo or quadraphonic, preferably in sub woofers or quality monitor speakers.

The score should be read in the Decibel ScorePlayer software on ipad, which networks different players together and communicates with the Max patch. The file extension .dsz should be uploaded to the ipad with the ScorePlayer application via airdrop (MAC) or iTunes file share (PC). This file will not open on a desktop computer. The .png file is for reference only.

PROGRAM NOTE
This piece takes its departure in the way Scelsi would adopt glissandi, vibrato and drone in his later works. Each instrument is sampled in their second appearance in the work, and this initial pitch is sampled and transformed through the duration of the work, sliding across the other parts. The movements of these slides are designed from parameters extracted from a book of collected Scelsi writings, transcribed from tape recordings, entitled Sogno 101. Like Scelsi’s words, the instruments are ‘transcribed’ into the work as a whole.

PERFORMANCES
Premiere: Australasian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne, July 2014
Inner Space Program, Decibel new music ensemble, Palermo, December 8, 2013; Perth, November 2014; Melbourne, May 2015
International Computer Music Conference, Athens, Greece, August 2014
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield UK, Decibel 'Cat Hope' monograph concert December 2022 (arrangement for percussion instead of piano). Recorded by BBC3.

Featured on Cat Hope 'Ephemeral Rivers' CD, Hat[now]ART 200


This work is dedicated to Giacinto Scelsi, and is a reflection on the book, Sogno 101. This book is made up of transcriptions of Scelsi's audio recordings. This piece reflects this method by sampling the live instruments, playing them back in a tape like score. The piece also uses many playing techniques similar to those used by Scelsi. Contact the composer for the computer program, or make your own that samples the instruments at the points shown, as sine tones.

"

...the listener was drawn into a magical sonic world of considerable expressive depth.

" Lisa MacKinney, Limelight Magazine.


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