Study for String Instrument #2

For 1-3 string instruments (+) and whammy pedal
2009
Duration ca. 6 min.

Study for String Instrument #1-3 is a trilogy exploring, among other things, choreographic aspects of string playing. All three pieces are notated as movement and #1 and #2 can be played on any string instrument or in any combination of string instruments (or on a number of other instruments meeting certain criteria). The development in the series is going from ‘the movement of the sound’ to ‘the sound of the movement’, increasing the role of the movements themselves, ending in Study #3 composed with the motto: at least as interesting for a deaf as for a blind person. Study #2 is for string instrument(s) and a so-called whammy pedal. The instrument is mainly making glissandi over two octaves, back and forth. The pedal is set to do the same thing; it can gradually transpose the sound of the instrument up two octaves. The first part of the piece is simply exploring the combinations of the glissandi and the transposing (enabling four octaves glissandi when the instruments and the pedal are going in the same direction or ‘neutralizing’ the glissandi when the instruments and the pedal are going against each other, making the note stay more or less in the same place), but later the whammy pedal is fed with more noisy sounds, resulting in more possibilities and surprising results. When fed with pure noise, the whammy pedal is forced to choose a random note to transpose. In the end of the piece, in a section marked molto cantabile, the pedal is ’tricked’ into constantly choosing new notes from the noise source, as if the pedal was inventing and singing its own melody ...

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Nov 21, 2024
21:00
Study for String Instrument #2
defunensemble
Sibelius Museum
Turku
Finland
Jun 2, 2023
Asthma, Run Time Error, Hitting the Fan, Study for String Instrument #2, Radio Archive Scale
Roberto Marqueda and Simon Steen-Andersen
Kunstraum / NUMU
Baden
Switzerland
Jun 12, 2022
Study for String Instrument #2
Kairos Quartet
Plantage 13
Bremen
Germany
Jun 12, 2022
13:00
Run Time Error
reConvert
Ku.Be (KLANG Festival program for kids)
Copenhagen
Denmark
Jun 9, 2022
20:00
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3
Barbara Riccabona
ORF Studio 3
Innsbruck
Austria
Apr 3, 2022
Study for String Instrument #2
-
Fryderyk Chopin Music University
Warsaw
Poland
Jan 20, 2022
21:30
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3
Ad Hoc Ars
Serralves Cultural Center
Porto
Portugal
Dec 15, 2021
in-side-out-side-in, Beloved Brother, Study for String Instrument #2, Drownwords, Difficulties Putting it into Practice, Next To Beside Besides, #4+8
#4+8
Francesco Palmieri and Federico Tramontana
Centro di Ricerca Musicale San Leonardo
Bologna
Italy
Jun 18, 2021
Study for String Instrument #2
Kairos Quartet
Spreehalle
Berlin
Germany
May 14, 2021
Run Time Error, Study for String Instrument #2, Half a Bit of Nothing Integrated, Asthma, Hitting the Fan, Megaphone Cadenza
reConvert Project
Koncertkirken
Copenhaghen
Denmark
May 8, 2021
Difficulties Putting it into Practice, Study for String Instrument #2
Input Duo
Conservatori Liceu
Barcelona
Spain
Dec 11, 2020
19:30
Next To Beside Besides, Study for String Instrument #2
Ensemble Modern Academy
Streaming
Frankfurt
Germany
Oct 29, 2020
Run Time Error, Study for String Instrument #2, A bit of Nothing Integrated, Asthma, Hitting the Fan, Megaphone Cadenza
reConvert Project
University of the Arts / Ostermundigenstr.
Bern
Switzerland
Oct 28, 2020
Run Time Error, Study for String Instrument #2, A bit of Nothing Integrated, Asthma, Hitting the Fan, Megaphone Cadenza
reConvert Project
Tinguely Museum
Basel
Switzerland
Feb 2, 2020
Study for String Instrument #2
-
Villa Elisabeth
Berlin
Germany
Feb 1, 2020
Study for String Instrument #2
-
Villa Elisabeth
Berlin
Germany
Jan 31, 2020
Study for String Instrument #2
-
Villa Elisabeth
Berlin
Germany
Jan 30, 2020
Study for String Instrument #2
performed as part of "Viola Solo"
Villa Elisabeth
Berlin
Germany
Jun 4, 2019
Study for String Instrument #2
Ascolta
Theaterhaus
Stuttgart
Germany
May 15, 2019
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3
Alexandra Hallén
Cairo Contemporary Music Days
Cairo
Egypt
Apr 23, 2019
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String instrument #3
Alexandra Hallén
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen
Denmark
Feb 7, 2019
19:00
Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3, Run Time Error
--
Academy of Music
Luzern
Switzerland
Nov 18, 2018
Study for String Instrument #2, Beloved Brother
Ensemble NADAR
Rainy Days
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Sep 20, 2018
Run Time Error, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3, Asthma
SSA and Roberto Maqueda Dominiguez
--
La Plata
Argentina
Feb 20, 2018
Study for String Instrument #2
Du.O
Lilypad
Cambridge, MA
US
Study for String Instrument #2

For 1-3 string instruments (+) and whammy pedal
2009
Duration ca. 6 min.

Study for String Instrument #1-3 is a trilogy exploring, among other things, choreographic aspects of string playing. All three pieces are notated as movement and #1 and #2 can be played on any string instrument or in any combination of string instruments (or on a number of other instruments meeting certain criteria). The development in the series is going from ‘the movement of the sound’ to ‘the sound of the movement’, increasing the role of the movements themselves, ending in Study #3 composed with the motto: at least as interesting for a deaf as for a blind person. Study #2 is for string instrument(s) and a so-called whammy pedal. The instrument is mainly making glissandi over two octaves, back and forth. The pedal is set to do the same thing; it can gradually transpose the sound of the instrument up two octaves. The first part of the piece is simply exploring the combinations of the glissandi and the transposing (enabling four octaves glissandi when the instruments and the pedal are going in the same direction or ‘neutralizing’ the glissandi when the instruments and the pedal are going against each other, making the note stay more or less in the same place), but later the whammy pedal is fed with more noisy sounds, resulting in more possibilities and surprising results. When fed with pure noise, the whammy pedal is forced to choose a random note to transpose. In the end of the piece, in a section marked molto cantabile, the pedal is ’tricked’ into constantly choosing new notes from the noise source, as if the pedal was inventing and singing its own melody ...

No items found.
Jun 8, 2011
20:00
Study for String Instrument #2
l'Art pour l'Art
Dampfzentrale
Bern
Switzerland
May 25, 2011
23:03
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2
(from a concert with Ensemble Mosaik 1/4 in Rottenburg)
Broadcast on German radio "SWR2"
Germany
May 21, 2011
21:30
Study for String Instrument #2
NADAR Ensemble
Blurred Edges Festival
Hamburg
Germany
May 13, 2011
22:00
On And Off And To And Fro, Run Time Error, rerendered, Next To Beside Besides, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3
(portrait concert 'On+Off')
In collaboration with Asamisimasa
VTBA
Stuttgart
Germany
May 13, 2011
19:30
On And Off And To And Fro, Run Time Error, rerendered, Next To Beside Besides, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3
(portrait concert 'On+Off')
In collaboration with Asamisimasa
VTBA
Stuttgart
Germany
Apr 26, 2011
21:30
Study for String Instrument #2
Ensemble Pamplmousse
The Tank
New York
US
Apr 1, 2011
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2
Ensemble Mosaik
VTBA
Rottenburg
Germany
Feb 27, 2011
09:10
Study for String Instrument #2
("die neue Platte")
Broadcast on German radio "Deutschlandradio Kultur"
Feb 27, 2011
Next To Beside Besides, Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2
(Kamikaze Version of NTBB #1+2)
NADAR ensemble
Axes for Jazz Power
Eindhoven
Holland
Dec 23, 2010
00:05
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2
(recording of a concert with ensemble Mosaik from the 11/6)
Broadcast in German radio "Deutschlandradio Kultur"
Nov 6, 2010
19:30
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2
Ensemble MOSAIK
Klangwerkstatt Festival
Berlin
Germany
Oct 20, 2010
20:00
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2, Next To Beside Besides, Run Time Error
Lecture performance
Marieke Berendsen and SSA
deSingel
Antwerpen
Belgium
Oct 7, 2010
Study for String Instrument #2
-
Goethe-Institut
Palermo
Italy
Oct 4, 2010
Next To Beside Besides, Study for String Instrument #2
(Kamikaze version of NTBB)
Erik Drescher, Francesco Dillon and SSA
Villa Romana
Florenz
Italy
Oct 3, 2010
Study for String Instrument #2
-
VTBA
Bologna
Italy
Sep 5, 2010
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2
Trio Aristos
Susaa Festival
Naestved
Denmark
Sep 4, 2010
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2
Ensemble Mosaik (feat. SSA on whammy-pedal)
Kunstraum Tosterglope
Tosterglope
Germany
May 12, 2010
Study for String Instrument #2
The DAAD Presentation
Rotes Rathaus
Berlin
Germany
Study for String Instrument #2

For 1-3 string instruments (+) and whammy pedal
2009
Duration ca. 6 min.

Study for String Instrument #1-3 is a trilogy exploring, among other things, choreographic aspects of string playing. All three pieces are notated as movement and #1 and #2 can be played on any string instrument or in any combination of string instruments (or on a number of other instruments meeting certain criteria). The development in the series is going from ‘the movement of the sound’ to ‘the sound of the movement’, increasing the role of the movements themselves, ending in Study #3 composed with the motto: at least as interesting for a deaf as for a blind person. Study #2 is for string instrument(s) and a so-called whammy pedal. The instrument is mainly making glissandi over two octaves, back and forth. The pedal is set to do the same thing; it can gradually transpose the sound of the instrument up two octaves. The first part of the piece is simply exploring the combinations of the glissandi and the transposing (enabling four octaves glissandi when the instruments and the pedal are going in the same direction or ‘neutralizing’ the glissandi when the instruments and the pedal are going against each other, making the note stay more or less in the same place), but later the whammy pedal is fed with more noisy sounds, resulting in more possibilities and surprising results. When fed with pure noise, the whammy pedal is forced to choose a random note to transpose. In the end of the piece, in a section marked molto cantabile, the pedal is ’tricked’ into constantly choosing new notes from the noise source, as if the pedal was inventing and singing its own melody ...

No items found.
Nov 21, 2024
21:00
Study for String Instrument #2
defunensemble
Sibelius Museum
Turku
Finland
Jun 2, 2023
Asthma, Run Time Error, Hitting the Fan, Study for String Instrument #2, Radio Archive Scale
Roberto Marqueda and Simon Steen-Andersen
Kunstraum / NUMU
Baden
Switzerland
Jun 12, 2022
Study for String Instrument #2
Kairos Quartet
Plantage 13
Bremen
Germany
Jun 12, 2022
13:00
Run Time Error
reConvert
Ku.Be (KLANG Festival program for kids)
Copenhagen
Denmark
Jun 9, 2022
20:00
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3
Barbara Riccabona
ORF Studio 3
Innsbruck
Austria
Apr 3, 2022
Study for String Instrument #2
-
Fryderyk Chopin Music University
Warsaw
Poland
Jan 20, 2022
21:30
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3
Ad Hoc Ars
Serralves Cultural Center
Porto
Portugal
Dec 15, 2021
in-side-out-side-in, Beloved Brother, Study for String Instrument #2, Drownwords, Difficulties Putting it into Practice, Next To Beside Besides, #4+8
#4+8
Francesco Palmieri and Federico Tramontana
Centro di Ricerca Musicale San Leonardo
Bologna
Italy
Jun 18, 2021
Study for String Instrument #2
Kairos Quartet
Spreehalle
Berlin
Germany
May 14, 2021
Run Time Error, Study for String Instrument #2, Half a Bit of Nothing Integrated, Asthma, Hitting the Fan, Megaphone Cadenza
reConvert Project
Koncertkirken
Copenhaghen
Denmark
May 8, 2021
Difficulties Putting it into Practice, Study for String Instrument #2
Input Duo
Conservatori Liceu
Barcelona
Spain
Dec 11, 2020
19:30
Next To Beside Besides, Study for String Instrument #2
Ensemble Modern Academy
Streaming
Frankfurt
Germany
Oct 29, 2020
Run Time Error, Study for String Instrument #2, A bit of Nothing Integrated, Asthma, Hitting the Fan, Megaphone Cadenza
reConvert Project
University of the Arts / Ostermundigenstr.
Bern
Switzerland
Oct 28, 2020
Run Time Error, Study for String Instrument #2, A bit of Nothing Integrated, Asthma, Hitting the Fan, Megaphone Cadenza
reConvert Project
Tinguely Museum
Basel
Switzerland
Feb 2, 2020
Study for String Instrument #2
-
Villa Elisabeth
Berlin
Germany
Feb 1, 2020
Study for String Instrument #2
-
Villa Elisabeth
Berlin
Germany
Jan 31, 2020
Study for String Instrument #2
-
Villa Elisabeth
Berlin
Germany
Jan 30, 2020
Study for String Instrument #2
performed as part of "Viola Solo"
Villa Elisabeth
Berlin
Germany
Jun 4, 2019
Study for String Instrument #2
Ascolta
Theaterhaus
Stuttgart
Germany
May 15, 2019
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3
Alexandra Hallén
Cairo Contemporary Music Days
Cairo
Egypt
Apr 23, 2019
Study for String Instrument #1, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String instrument #3
Alexandra Hallén
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen
Denmark
Feb 7, 2019
19:00
Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3, Run Time Error
--
Academy of Music
Luzern
Switzerland
Nov 18, 2018
Study for String Instrument #2, Beloved Brother
Ensemble NADAR
Rainy Days
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Sep 20, 2018
Run Time Error, Study for String Instrument #2, Study for String Instrument #3, Asthma
SSA and Roberto Maqueda Dominiguez
--
La Plata
Argentina
Feb 20, 2018
Study for String Instrument #2
Du.O
Lilypad
Cambridge, MA
US