like MACHINE, maybe

like MACHINE, maybe two violins and one piano

Alex Huddleston 2015

Performance notes:

Possible eating arrangement

General: What happens in this piece is meant to be settings of some machine - within one setting, things keep going without changing. Because of this repetitiveness, and trying to keep clutter out of the score, instructions of dynamic, articulation, timbre are given once in the first time. These should be repeated the same until the next section.

There are three main sections each with subsections indicated on the score

with a section bar line

Vio

n1

lin

li Vio

2

(lid closed)

Strings are specified with a roman numeral above the staff

Ai Bi Ci coda Aii Bii Cii Aiii Biii Ciii Civ

Piano

I II III IV

The second violin needs a heavy rubber practice mute. while the mute is on, dynamics are in parenthesis.

At some points there are bow placements specified. closer to the bridge should make it nasal, with harmonics closer to the fingerboard should make it hollow and woody

The piano has minor preparations: 15vb

s

Audience

The lowest B and C# should have alligator clips pinched on the strings.

They should be placed so that there is both a low thump and a high harmonic pitch.

The piano is always notated with beams down = left hand beams up = right hand

Program Note: A machine with various settings. We do not know what it does but are fascinated by its mechanisms, its movements, its obscure logic absolute in its regidity. A minor miracle, if completely inconsequential, that this machine may yield some Aesthetic pleasure.

Duration: 4:30

__ like MACHINE, maybe

VIOLIN 1 VIOLIN 2

(Heavy mute)

Ai

III

III

IV

IV

3

mp

IV mf

mp

III mf IV

4

(pp)

=72

PIANO

IV

(s

III

(pp)

RH

) (n ) LH

ppp

10

IV

III

III

IV III

20

III

III IV

IV

III

IV

A ii

III

()

IV

s

IV ( )

mf

mp (flat, steady)

(mf)

(mp)

pp

etc ...

ped

pp

A iii

p

III

30

s

s mp

ff

mp

p

ff

mp

p

III

take mute off

p

mp

pp

mp

mf

ff

pp

p

ped

s p

s IV

IV

etc ...

ff

p

40 V1

s

s

s

s

V2

PNO p

Bi 50

s

s

s ff

bow more and more towards the bridge until on the bridge by Bii

bow more and more towards the bridge until on the bridge by Bii

ff

(on the bridge)

B ii

60 (on the bridge)

fff

bridge

ďŹ ngerboard

70 ff

pp bridge

bridge

B iii

etc...

ff (glissando)

fff

etc...

ff (glissando)

fff

Page 2

pp

fff

bow placement: bridge

ff

(bridge)

(bridge)

ďŹ ngerboard

pp

80

Ci

V1 fff

V2 fff

PNO pp (bridge)

(bridge)

C ii

(bridge) I

90 fff

ppp

(fingerboard)

(bridge)

fff

ppp

fff

C iii

C iv

II pp

pp

fff

fff try, slowly, to play higher than the other violin

pp

fff

coda

100 ppp try, slowly, to match the pitch

of the other violin

ppp don’t emphasize downbeats

15vb

pp

mf

roughly 4:30

107

Alex Huddleston Boston, 2015

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