Royal String Quartet<\/a>. The composition was based on an analysis of a specific building \u2013 the music department at the Stranmillis College in Belfast. Designed in 1968 (H. Wightman) it is a remarkable piece of architecture, both placeless (its UFO-like shape so reinforces) and beautifully integrated in the landscape. To help articulate the different ways the building can inform the composition, I based each part on three different works by three Polish artists whose work has been fascinating me.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/diogoalvim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Music-Department-300x198.png\")
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Part 1<\/b>\u00a0uses elements from the material found in Penderecki\u2019s second string quartet (1968) to articulate a wide range of musical textures and timbres, through peculiar symbols and wobbly lines. It is my subjective sonification of the building, at once formal, conceptual,\u00a0 phenomenological. At once ambiguous and contradictory.<\/p>\n
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Part 2<\/b>\u00a0is based on a graphic score that refers to Edward Krasi\u0144ski, Poland\u2019s first conceptual artist who in 1968 started to stick blue tape as an artistic statement, in the art gallery, on the street, on art pieces and even over people. That line is transported to the score and guides the quartet through different perspectives of the building, its materials, textures and shapes.<\/p>\n
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Part 3<\/b>\u00a0is based on Stanis\u0142aw Lem\u2019s novel\u00a0His Master\u2019s Voice<\/i>\u00a0(1968) that talks about our inability to translate and understand an alien message. From a recording of my voice reading an excerpt of the text (in polish) inside the building,\u00a0revealing its resonant frequencies, I created a\u00a0sound score<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 to be translated and studied by ear and not by sight, which is, I should say, an impossible task.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBut it happened instead that the unknown Sender committed a dreadful faux pas, because his letter was without introductions, without a grammar, without a dictionary \u2013 an enormous letter, recorded on almost a kilometre of magnetic tape.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stanis\u0142aw Lem,\u00a0His Master\u2019s Voice<\/i>, 1968 (translation by Michael Kandel).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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