Boids again
für Streichquartett for String Quartet Edition Breitkopf
Boids again
für Streichquartett for String Quartet
Partitur Score
Misato Mochizuki Boids again
General Performance Notes
Glissando between two pitches
Portamento (glissando just before the second note)
Float fingers as if for harmonics
molto pont. Closer to the bridge than sul pont. (more metallic sound)
The accidentals are valid for the whole measure.
Leseprobe Sample page
Leseprobe Sample page
Misato Mochizuki Boids again (2019/20)
10th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa Commission
Aufführungsdauer | Performing Time etwa 7 Minuten | approx. 7 minutes
Uraufführung | World Premiere Osaka | Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (Round 3) | 19/05/2020
Two years ago in Rome, I encountered a murmuration of starlings and I was amazed with its overwhelming beauty, changing shape as it moved. Moving of a fi sh school that you can watch in an aquarium, has the same beauty and the energy.
According to the scientists, their fi ne movement in a fl ock is based on the following three simple rules: – steer to avoid crowding local fl ockmates
– steer towards the average heading of local fl ockmates
– steer to move towards the average position (center of mass) of local fl ockmates
The word “Boids” refers to bird-like objects (bird-oids), representing the beauty of their movements in a fl ock which is a result of balancing out with each other, following the principle of least effort. I wonder if these rules can be applied to the way a string quartet is shaped.
Boids again has been written as a sequel to the piece Boids (2017), a 4 minute study for string quartet in the frame of the Kronos Quartet‘s educational project “50 for the Future.”
(Misato Mochizuki)