Spikes (2014)

for viola d’amore and electronics

Written for /dedicated to: Marco Fusi

Instrumentation:  viola d’amore, freeze pedal and tape

Duration: 8’38’’

Publisher: Casa Ricordi

Première: 20 April 2015 @ Bundeshaus zu Wiedikon, Zürich (CH), Kompakt, Marco Fusi (vda)

The tape’s sources of this piece include a heterogeneous mix of instrumental and acoustics recordings, bioacoustical fragments of insects, and synthetized sounds. The degree of proximity between the instrument and the fixed audio tape constantly change, leading to section of tight affinity or wider contrast. The constant element running under (or above?) the rest for almost the entire duration of the piece, is the rhythmic pulsation of spikes, a set of periodic “faults” (fast transients in an electrical circuit) rearranged in regular patterns.

PERFORMANCES

20.04.15 @ Bundeshaus zu Wiedikon, Zürich (CH).  WP

23.04.15 @ Cube – IEM Kug, Graz (AT)

15.11.15 @ Italienisches Kulturinstitut, Stuttgart (DE)

11.03.17 @ Project(ion) Room, Brussels (BE)

23.04.17 @ Spectrum, New York City (USA)

13.12.17 @ SonicLab of Queen’s University, Belfast (UK)

23.02.19 @ Thorley Recital Hall, Southern Utah University, Cedar City (USA)

26.02.19 @ Salmon Recital Hall, Chapman University, Orange (USA)

11.06.19 @ Reid Hall, Columbia Center, Paris (FR)

15.04.22 @ USC, Thornton School of Music, Los Angeles, CA (USA)