Instrumentation: 16 performers
Contact: MMaierhof@stock11.de
Score: Fragment
Author: matrixnewmusic
James Tenney – Postal Pieces (1965-71)
Instrumentation: different solo pieces for double bass, voice, violin, percussion, harp, cello and free instrumetation
The postal pieces are a series of ten short works printed on postcards. His explanation of the set is that he hated to write letters, and since he had a number of very short compositions, what could be easier than to make postcards out of them.
Rusty Banks – Babbling Tower-to-Tower (2011)
Instrumentation: toy piano and cel phones
Contact: rusty@rustybanks.org
“Babbling Tower-to-Tower” is a work for toy piano and that other toy that has been a defining part of the “aughties,” the cell phone. For this piece I decided to eschew the many capabilities of the cell phone and use what might be the most neglected feature or “app” available on these devices– the actual ‘phone’ part of the cell phone. Actually, I am making use of the limitations of cell phones, namely their low fidelity and that amount of delay it takes for sound to enter the phone, be transmitted to a tower, relayed to another tower, then back to another phone. While this low sound quality and lack of immediacy are probably things phone makers and service providers are working to remedy, there are some lovely sonic possibilities in these defects.
