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
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Alex Huddleston Boston, 2015
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