Fragile

Basic information

Composer Klemola, Sami
Duration 16 min.
Year of composition 2007
First performance (year) 2007
First performance (venue) International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
First performance (performers) Uusinta Chamber Ensemble, Sami Klemola, electronics
Submitter Uusinta Chamber Ensemble
Publisher FIMIC
Type
Thematic tags
Conductor No
Soloist(s) ,

Instruments

Musicians 1st player 2nd player
Violin1
Viola1
Cello1
Flute 1
C
Piccolo
Clarinet 1
B-flat
Bass
Musicians Instruments
Keyboard 1
Piano
Other instruments and playing techniques
live-electronics
Equipment
Sound electronics
Ampflied ensemble (no electronics)
2-channel electronics
Visuals

Notes

Programme notes

About the title:
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair (Chinese proverb).

About the harmony:
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment… (Eliel Saarinen).

About the form:
Things appear in an extended and multiplied sense, often seemingly cocntradicting the rational experience of yesterday (Paul Klee).

About the computers:
One object suggests that there is another lurking behind it (Rene Magritte).

Technical specs

2 laptops with max/msp.
internal wlan connection between computers.
midicontroller (with minimum 12 faders).
microphones to all instruments.
soundcard (Motu etc...)
stereo output.

laptop 1 will be with soundengineer.
laptop 2 will be with the pianist, who will receive notated realtime
analysis of viola-spectra (both clean and efected) to improvise with.

Additional notes

Fragile is a comission by Uusinta chamber ensemble with the support of Sibelius Foundation.

 

The recording suffers from unintentional distortions and some fragments has been cut out.