I heard behind me a
loud voice
Nagging for
tuba and computer
2007
Stefan
Klaverdal
About
the piece
This is
essentially a piece on beats. It is an experiment with repeating 16ths,
eventually climbing scales also become part of the equation.
The title
is from the book of revelation, and relates to the feeling of rapture spoken of
in the text. In other genres, and also traditionally music that has a loud
bass, accelerating rhythms like in this piece is often used to produce feelings
of ecstasy. "I heard behind me..." plays with the same mechanisms,
but in a slightly different way.
It is also
a piece about nagging. In fact the first title for this piece was
"Nagging". The nagging aspect is used in a more general sense,
meaning that it might be annoying with repeats, like it is with children going
on about stuff they want, but i find it very interesting that in music, the
same rules don't apply. What would normally become nagging, turns into
something else. Stylistically something also happens to the music when it is
repeated. It starts morphing into other unexpected forms.
First
performed in Malm, November 29th 2007 by Kjetil Myklebust.
Available on the CD "Electric Tuba" with Kjetil Myklebust
Technical
information:
To play the
computer part, the patch for MAX/MSP is needed from the composer.
It is not self-sufficient,
and will need a player through the performance to operate it.
One will
also need a computer capable of running the MAX/MSP runtime environment.
The patch
is only tested on Apple computers, and will run nicely on a G4 867MHz.
A soundcard
with one in and two out is also needed. It has to be set to very low latency.
Other
equipment:
A PA-system
with two smaller speakers (Genelec 1029 or equivalent) to be placed as close to
the soloist as possible.
A
microphone for the singer connected to the soundcard