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(2018-19)
for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
NICK BENTZ
Phaëthon Press
performance notes
---extended techniques
--clarinet
-timbral trill – trill between two fingers that create a similar pitch
--strings
-highest note possible – play the highest note possible on the string marked
-very slow bow – use intense right-hand pressure and minimal bow to create a pitchless static-like sound (technique marked with text)
--bow pressure overpressure scratch
pitch noise
--bow placement poco sul pont syl pont molto sul pont
--vibrato
--piano
-gong sound – hit the lowest register of the strings inside the piano with the palm of the hand
--general
-accidentals last through the bar without octave displacement
-glissandi last the entire duration of the note marked
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-transitions in technique: arrows with filled bodies relate to changes in bow pressure arrows with dashed bodies relate to changes in bow placement/air usage and vibrato
senza vib. poco vib.
molto vib.
Krakowska vib. (crazy vib.)
program note
Glimpse is a piece that I wrote as I found myself fascinated at the way and speed that our brains catalog information. The human brain is a complex machine that often works in ways that we’re unable to readily perceive – one of these subliminal processes being facial recognition. The brain constantly perceives and creates patterns among the faces that we encounter, even in passing, using information from all around us to infer how we might interact with one another. It’s through the repeating of similar stimuli that we’re able to quickly read emotions and situations in order to best ascertain how to act, or to unlock our own empathy towards each other. However, these same processes can yield implicit biases, shortchanging the very people we see.
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Glimpse is structured and derived from a five-pitch set which is constantly run through various processes. As these processes repeat, the material begins to ‘learn’ from bar-to-bar and gesture-to-gesture, playing with and sometimes against the very rules that it finds itself entrapped within. Glimpse was commissioned by the clarinetist Melissa Lander for her chamber group, Quattri Quartet.
DURATION:
9’ score is in C
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Clarinet in Bb
Violin
Cello
Piano