Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

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Work Overview

Visions | Vestiges is a performance-installation for bass clarinet, cello, percussion, electronics, and notational sculpture (an antique music stand, handblown glass, water). It constitutes an experiment in 3D notation-expanding the musical score to media beyond the 2D. In projecting the score through a crystal ball (glass and water), unexpected distortions occur in real-time. The linearity of the musical stave is bent in this generative visual process-the composer's best attempt at bending time itself. The work as a whole is a meditation on time and temporality.

'Visions' refers to future-seeing, whereas 'Vestiges' alludes to fragments of the past. In the composition, the function of repetition (with slowly evolving musical fragments, and the electronic reverb-delay) serves to question what we take forward with us, what lingers, and how the future is shaped from remnants of our history. 'Visions | Vestiges' is composed in a time of uncertainty, and evokes the feeling of peering, (stretching, squinting) through the opaque mists of time to a vague outline of the future.

Work Details

Year: 2023

Instrumentation: Bass clarinet, cello, percussion, electronics.

Duration: 17 min.

Difficulty: Advanced

Commission note: Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) as part of the Soundhub Emerging Composers Initiative.