This piece was written as a project for Tanglewood 2020 online festival. This brought composition fellows and double bass fellows together on a wonderful collaborative project.
My piece A door to yesterday is made of seven short movements that essentially a poem with an element of reflecting on our current times and searching for a way for ‘a door to yesterday’ as such. Each of the movements allow for the double bass to really show the different sides of it voice. Some movements stay completely in the depths of the instrument enjoying the rich and dark resonances of the instruments and others explore the stratospheres circling round almost exclusively on harmonics. The name of the movements are:
I. Outstretched Wings
II. Fireflies in the twisted light
III. Circles edges hold
IV. Unfolding Knots
V. Fractal Bursts
VI. Tracing shadows through
VII. A door to yesterday
It has been wonderful to work and collaborate with both Maggie Cox and Sean o’ Hara for this project and I have learnt so much from both of them. Their input has helped me to create pieces that reflect the sounds I was hoping to achieve, discover new ones and allow it to be idiomatic for the double bass – no easy task indeed.
My piece A door to yesterday is made of seven short movements that essentially a poem with an element of reflecting on our current times and searching for a way for ‘a door to yesterday’ as such. Each of the movements allow for the double bass to really show the different sides of it voice. Some movements stay completely in the depths of the instrument enjoying the rich and dark resonances of the instruments and others explore the stratospheres circling round almost exclusively on harmonics. The name of the movements are:
I. Outstretched Wings
II. Fireflies in the twisted light
III. Circles edges hold
IV. Unfolding Knots
V. Fractal Bursts
VI. Tracing shadows through
VII. A door to yesterday
It has been wonderful to work and collaborate with both Maggie Cox and Sean o’ Hara for this project and I have learnt so much from both of them. Their input has helped me to create pieces that reflect the sounds I was hoping to achieve, discover new ones and allow it to be idiomatic for the double bass – no easy task indeed.