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Premiere
  • Nachtstrom , Basel, Swizerland, May.9.2005
Selected for performance
  • Electroacoustic music12 nights
  • Pascal Pons Percussion Solo Recital
  • KlangWerk 06
  • ICMC 2006
  • Next generation 05
Program note

In this piece, a percussionist plays a sheet of paper in various ways (e.g. tapping, flipping, flapping, blowing, rubbing, crushing, and tearing it) and imitates noises from the paper by simulating them using his/her throat and mouth. Not only these sounds but also the movements of the player are precisely notated in the score. The composer tried to compose the visual and theatrical aspects of the piece as well as the sound. The electronic part is realized with Max/MSP. The patch, programed by the composer, records paper sounds in realtime and detects rhythms in it. After that it immediately generates new phrases based on these rhythms, employing the Markov chain algorithm.

scoreexcerpt of the score