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night blanket motor shuddering rest (Adam Hirsch)

from Dialogue by Helen Newby

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Adam Hirsch, "night blanket motor shuddering rest"

night blanket motor shuddering rest is a series of real and imagined encounters between two stringed resonant bodies, written for cellist Helen Newby and woven together with echoes, memories, and aberrant noise. The electronic component of the piece was stitched together using 3-5 second snippets of an old upright piano’s resonance recorded immediately after Helen played short bursts of material next to the instrument, with the sustain pedal sandbagged to the floor. I scored for Helen an approximation of the cello material that had resulted in each corresponding resonance, and she is directed to interpret that material freely in her live interaction with the recording. Each section is also accompanied by a small bit of text in the score, culled from journals I kept during a solitary drive across the southern US. The piece is in many ways about echoes, in both acoustic and metaphysical contexts: the piano resonance echoes Helen’s original gestures, her interpretations of the score echo both the piano and my own experience of a slowly and bizarrely changing environment.

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from Dialogue, released April 28, 2017

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