J. Noble: River and Cave (Steve Cowan and Adam Cicchillitti, guitars)

Описание: Live performance for the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society, November 10, 2019

Album version (Analekta): https://www.analekta.com/en/albums/co...

Music by Jason Noble
Video by Frank Weiler
Guitarlift by Felix Justen
Guitars by Bruno Boutin and Jean Rompré

Program note:
"Originally written for two harps, Noble arranged and edited River and Cave for Cicchillitti and Cowan, who premiered the piece in October 2018. The music of Jason Noble has been described as 'brilliant, colourful, astounding and challenging,' all of which describe River and Cave. Symbol's form an integral part of Noble's work and his self-stylized "semiotic" compositional style, in which the composer focuses on the listener's perception of meaning derived from musical symbols. Noble notes that the "river and cave are deeply embedded cultural symbols" that are represented in the work's three sections. The first is animated by a feeling of perpetual motion through the use of repeated patterns to emulate a flowing river. In the river's second, contrasting, section, the performer's are asked to detune the guitar's bass strings, simulating the rumbling and rushing of water. In the final "cave" section, the performer's sing into the body of the guitar to evoke sound images of caves." -program note by Richard Turp, from the album FOCUS.

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