{"id":857,"date":"2016-02-20T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/?p=857"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:36:05","slug":"premiere-of-hyperboles-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"premiere of hyperboles 5, Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-857-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/stopen\/michael\/hyperboles5premiere.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/stopen\/michael\/hyperboles5premiere.mp3\">http:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/stopen\/michael\/hyperboles5premiere.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Fallowfield and I outed the latest version of my\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/?tag=hyperboles\" target=\"_blank\">hyperboles<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>project last weekend at the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/schools\/lcahm\/departments\/music\/events\/2016\/crosscurrents-beast-soundkitchen.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Crosscurrents Festival<\/a><\/em> in Birmingham. After two days of intense rehearsals and development it was a real pleasure to play in the Dome of the Bramall Music Building. Scott Wilson and\u00a0Annie\u00a0Mahtani&#8217;s team are continuing and developing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beast.bham.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre<\/a>\u00a0tradition using a thirty-odd Genelec speaker system in three elevation levels. You can get an idea of this in the picture above, though I should own\u00a0that I got this from BEAST&#8217;s website rather than from our performance (forgot to take piccies again!).<\/p>\n<p>This, the fifth version of <em>hyperboles,<\/em>\u00a0was written for Ellen Fallowfield. In particular it concentrates on\u00a0her work developing and notating cello multiphonics. This is fully documented\u00a0online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellomap.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.cellomap.com<\/a>. Most of the notes in the score are multiphonics&#8212;there&#8217;s really only the odd low C and high B-flat that&#8217;s not a multiphonic. \u00a0Ellen&#8217;s overview of how these are created is given\u00a0below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Multiphonics seem to occur when harmonics with nodal points closely situated\u00a0on a string are encouraged to sound together by making some compromises with\u00a0left-hand position, bow speed\/pressure and point of contact. In other words,\u00a0the player finds a left-hand position, bow speed\/pressure and point of contact\u00a0that is \u2018acceptable\u2019 enough to several harmonics to enable them to sound\u00a0simultaneously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each version\/performance of\u00a0<em>hyperboles\u00a0<\/em>involves taking a journey. I use the elevation data of a Google Maps journey to control various aspects of the piece, for instance activity levels. The process is detailed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/?p=89\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a>. I like to use a journey that has some particular significance for the performer, so for Mieko Kanno&#8217;s violin version we used a hike inJapan from Nagano to Yamanashi. Ellen has a particularly strong association with the train journey she often took from Basel (Switzerland) to Graz (Austria) when she was studying in both places simultaneously a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel-graz-train-large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-872 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel-graz-train-large-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"basel-graz-train-large\" width=\"620\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel-graz-train-large-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel-graz-train-large-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel-graz-train-large-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel-graz-train-large-1536x1110.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel-graz-train-large.jpg 1565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Tsun Winston\u00a0Yeung for the last-minute Zoom H5 recording linked above. I&#8217;m very much looking forward to getting into the studio and recording this project properly some time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ellen Fallowfield and I outed the latest version of my\u00a0hyperboles\u00a0project last weekend at the Crosscurrents Festival in Birmingham. After two days of intense rehearsals and development it was a real pleasure to play in the Dome of the Bramall Music Building. Scott Wilson and\u00a0Annie\u00a0Mahtani&#8217;s team are continuing and developing the Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre\u00a0tradition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27,11,101,108],"tags":[3,4,39,84,40,132,47,6],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algorithmic-composition","category-composition","category-composition-documentation","category-hyperboles","category-slippery-chicken","tag-algorithms","tag-common-lisp","tag-hyperboles","tag-maxmsp","tag-musician-tweaked-algorithmic-composition","tag-osc","tag-permutations","tag-slippery-chicken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}