One-Footed - Del Sol and PARTCH Ensemble - Taylor Brook - Live at REDCAT, LA

Описание: One-Footed
string quartet and Partch instruments
Taylor Brook, composer
2022

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performance by:
Del Sol Quartet
PARTCH Ensemble
Taylor Brook, composer/cond.

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Live performance at REDCAT, LA
June 18, 2022
Taylor Brook, audio mix and master
Daniel Corral, event producer
technical direction, Chris Votek
Video Edit by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
with support from the Canada Council of the Arts

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Del Sol Quartet:
Sam Weiser, violin
Benjamin Kreith, violin
Charlton Lee, viola
Kathryn Bates, cello

PARTCH Ensemble:
Erin Barnes
Alison Bjorkedal
Matt Cook
Dustin Donahue
Tim Feeney
Vicki Ray
John Schneider
Alex Wand

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About One-Footed:

The title of this work refers to a fascinating chart in Harry Partch's Genesis of a Music: "The One-footed Bride." Resembling the outline of a foot, this chart marks out just intervals and their inversions along either side of a central axis. In this chart, one finds diatonic interval regions associated with expressive qualities; seconds and sevenths with "approach," thirds and sixths with "emotion," perfect fourths and fifths with "power," and the tritone region with "suspense." While highly subjective, there's a certain intuitive sense to these pairings. Even more fascinating for me was how Partch fits his 43-note scale into a diatonic structure. What this suggests is that we might understand the many intervals of Partch's scale as shadings within each region. This became the foundation of my piece, One-footed: an exploration of the expressive potential of thinking about pitch and interval in this way.

The instrumentation for One-footed combines a string quartet with many of Partch's famous instruments. As a composer writing in 2021 I enjoy the legacy of composers like Partch and Ben Johnston, where performers like the Del Sol Quartet now deeply understand just intonation, and I see the PARTCH ENSEMBLE as a whole new type of orchestra that can finally be bridged to as a result. One-footed was written for the combined forces of Del Sol Quartet and PARTCH Ensemble in 2020-2021.

SCORE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SEZR...