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string quartet no. 1
for string quartet
program notes
String Quartet no. 1 marks a time when I turned away from melody-centric music and found new approaches to organizing my compositional thinking. I envision the piece as a set of sonic objects and environments which oscillate between phenomenological and musical settings. I use these words â music and phenomenon â not because I believe they are easily defined or parsed; but because, through attempting to establish a space connecting them, I hope that music will blossom out of sound; that musical passages will arise from process; and that music will be discovered rather than asserted.  | recording |
| The Arditti String Quartet: Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan, Ralf Ehlers and Lucas Fels |
files associated with this work
| Filename | Filetype | Filesize |
|---|---|---|
 cello.pdf | file | 751.8 KB |
 files.html | file | 36 B |
| full_score.pdf | file | 1.5 MB |
| viola.pdf | file | 829.0 KB |
| violin1.pdf | file | 748.4 KB |
| violin2.pdf | file | 781.5 KB |
Upcoming Peformances
· 5/27/2010 -- crumbling walls and wandering rocks will be performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble in New York, NY.· 3/11/2010 -- open end will be performed by Brian Archinal in Tempe, AZ.
· 12/9/2009 -- String Quartet no. 1 will be played by Ensemble SurPlus in E-Werk Grosser Saal, Freiburg, Germany.
· 9/11/2009 -- disjointed movements will be played at the Contempuls Contemporary Music Festival in Prague.