Login

Enter your username and password

Forgotten your username or password?

Your Shopping Cart

There are no items in your shopping cart.

Work

Rhythm City : for piano, video sampler and electronics

by Tristan Coelho (2018)

Work Overview

Rhythm City explores everyday sounds by bringing together a collection of short, specially-prepared video clips which are looped and developed in real time. The clips themselves centre on rather mundane and commonplace actions and happenings, the idea being that by framing and isolating these scenes rhythms begin to emerge giving rise to a surprising form of music all while time seemingly stands still for the observer. All of this is wrapped up in a type of video-game environment which is controlled by the performer; the pianist plays and manipulates the videos on a midi keyboard while responding to them in the piano part which involves musical ideas inspired by or directly transcribed from the clips.

Work Details

Year: 2018

Instrumentation: Piano solo with laptop running Rhythm City software, audio interface, mics for amplification plus single mic for amplitude triggering, midi keyboard, footswitch (further details in performance notes). 

Duration: 17 min.

Difficulty: Advanced

Dedication note: Dedicated to Zubin Kanga

Commission note: Commissioned by Zubin Kanga.

First performance: by Zubin Kanga at Zubin Kanga - Piano Ex Machina (The Ian Potter Southbank Centre) on 10 Apr 2019

The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:
noise, soundscape, loops, minimalism

Subjects

Performances of this work

26 Apr 2019: at Zubin Kanga - Piano Ex Machina (Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University). Featuring Zubin Kanga.

24 Apr 2019: at Zubin Kanga - Piano Ex Machina (Studio Underground). Featuring Zubin Kanga.

13 Apr 2019: at Zubin Kanga - Piano Ex Machina (Sydney Conservatorium of Music). Featuring Zubin Kanga.

10 Apr 2019: at Zubin Kanga - Piano Ex Machina (The Ian Potter Southbank Centre). Featuring Zubin Kanga.

User reviews

Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this work.

To post a comment please login.