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scrapings (Ensemble Mimitabu)

by Max Wainwright

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This piece was commissioned buy Ensemble Mimitabu (Gothenburg). It is scored for violin, cello and percussion (a floor tom) with custom electronics involving contact microphones and relays as low-fi transducers. Sounds from one instrument are "sent" to another, which acts as a resonator, while both musicians manipulate their instruments according to the text score (which includes some illustrations).
The piece has four parts, which are played in pairs while the third musician rests. A fourth performer uses two stereo microphones to amplify the quiet sounds, directing them at different parts of the sounding instruments, leading to shifting timbral focuses and an "artificial" stereo image.

I consider this piece a form of acoustic microsound, where the physical textures of the instruments' surfaces are amplified using electronics, and filtered by other resonating bodies.

Performed on 7th of May 2016

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released May 7, 2016
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Karin Hellqvist – violin
My Hellgren – cello
Martin Salomonsson – percussion
Max Wainwright – microphones

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Max Wainwright Uppsala, Sweden

Max Wainwright is a composer and performer of experimental electronic and acoustic music, often involving free improvisation, adapting to complex systems, and making+using terrible instruments. He does solo and collaborative performances, installations, sculpture, radio pieces, chamber composition and video work. ... more

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