dopamine for string quartet with score by Jeff Myers

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Program notes

Dopamine was written for the JACK Quartet out of friendship and mutual enthusiasm for contemporary music. The title refers to a hormone and neurotransmitter which occurs in humans and some mammals. Dopamine is typically associated with the pleasure system; people with higher dopamine levels tend to seek out more pleasurable activities and vice versa. Dopamine is also associated with creativity and the generation of new ideas. I used dopamine as a metaphor for this string quartet because it was written within a short span of a few days in an unprecedented creative fervor. My motivation came from both the creative experience and from the music itself, which gave me great pleasure to listen to. Perhaps my own level of dopamine was very high as I wrote this music. I suppose I will never know.


All of the instruments have retuned strings, observe the following:

Violin 1:
E tuned up to F 1/6 tone flat (‘cello’s G string, 7th harmonic)
A tuned down to Ab about 1/6 tone sharp
D tuned up to an Eb
G -

Violin 2:
E -
A -
D tuned down to C#
G tuned down to F 1/4 tone sharp (‘cello low C, 11th harmonic)

Viola
A tuned down to F# about 1/6 tone sharp
D -
G tuned down to E
C tuned down to B (natural)

Violoncello
A tuned up to Bb 1/6 tone flat (tune 2nd harmonic to low C, 7th harmonic) D tuned down to C
G -
C -