afloat - Paulo Guicheney
from Ramos by Luciane Cardassi
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afloat (2014) by Paulo Guicheney
afloat was composed for Luciane Cardassi. It arose from a reading of a poem by Sylvia Plath – the second part of Two Views of a Cadaver Room– which was itself inspired by The Triumph of Deathby Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Structurally, the work makes use of what the composer refers to as “polyphony of periodicities” (layers of repetition in different tempi), and “glissando of tempi” (continuing accelerations and decelerations). The samples (the electroacoustic counterpart of the piece) join the piano – now a microtonal instrument – becoming a single world both electronic and acoustic. Cardassi’s voice is present in the samples, as well as in passages performed live. The pianist recorded different renditions of the poem by Plath, which were afterwards deconstructed electronically. afloat deepens the fundamental quest of Guicheney’s poetry: the tense interaction – at times aggressive – between literature and music.
afloat was composed for Luciane Cardassi. It arose from a reading of a poem by Sylvia Plath – the second part of Two Views of a Cadaver Room– which was itself inspired by The Triumph of Deathby Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Structurally, the work makes use of what the composer refers to as “polyphony of periodicities” (layers of repetition in different tempi), and “glissando of tempi” (continuing accelerations and decelerations). The samples (the electroacoustic counterpart of the piece) join the piano – now a microtonal instrument – becoming a single world both electronic and acoustic. Cardassi’s voice is present in the samples, as well as in passages performed live. The pianist recorded different renditions of the poem by Plath, which were afterwards deconstructed electronically. afloat deepens the fundamental quest of Guicheney’s poetry: the tense interaction – at times aggressive – between literature and music.
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released September 30, 2019
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