Prologue
body on sprung wooden floor, breath
1st movement:: signal
de-accelerating heartbeat; sensor
2nd movement:: body
bowing of electric guitar
English choral polyphony
Choir without words
electronic sample
chant from Salisbury antiphonal (14th c.)
4th melodic piece of the set
reimagining of the piece through Brian Ferneyhough
3rd movement:: connection
modern cello in a Baroque style
French Baroque style-
inégal= unequalness mirrors heartbeat
stately, courtly
more about sex and syncopation
4th movement:: resonance
viola da gamba and electric guitar
lament baseline
from Purcell; Dido and Aeneas
contrapuntal idea
1600-1750 Baroque in music
grotesque period in Montiverdi's composition after madrigal
Baroque=disfigured pearl
excess; grotesque; metal; saturation; distortion
building intensity through timbral complexity
dissonance by proxy
5th movement:: interface
Solo viola da gamba
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