Lise Meitner (2014)

Lise Meitner

Soprano Electric guitar Sustaining keyboard instrument

(2014)

Alexander Hunter

Lise Meitner Performance Notes Lise Meitner was written on a flight from Glasgow to Chicago in June of 2014 for soprano, electric guitar and sustaining keyboard instrument. The piece can be made to be any length desired by the performers.

The soprano should use open vowel sounds, but is encouraged to exercise freedom in this regard. Creating a relatively homogenous texture with the other two parts should be a priority.

This work utilises ‘moment form’, meaning that each ‘moment’ is to be approached individually and separated by a pause. This pause between moments may last anywhere from two to ten seconds, and they need not be of uniform length. The acoustics of the performance space may influence the rate of progression (slower for large halls and quicker for small halls).

The length of each moment should be at least five seconds and no more than fifteen, and again, need not be of consistent length. The ensemble may perform any number of moments in any order. Moments may be repeated (not necessarily consecutively) up to five times in performance. In this way a performance may last anywhere from ten seconds to nearly an hour.

The spatial relationships between parts within moments are intended to be relative, but simultaneities should be observed accurately. All of this may be either improvised during performance, worked out beforehand or any combination of the two.

Alexander Hunter June 2014

Lise Meitner Alexander Hunter

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