soundmap ::: reconstruction
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Accompanying Electronics, Other
- Composed
- 2020
- Duration
- 30'
- Publisher
- Composer (contact for score)
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About this piece
soundmap ::: reconstruction (2020) is a half-hour music-theatre piece for cello, objects, amplified stones, tape and video, premiered by cellist Ulrike Brand at the Unerhörte Musik series at the BKA, Berlin, in October 2020. Khorkova took the chaotic relief lines of a stone from the Rhine as a 'graphic score made by nature': a large sculpted replica hangs on stage like a tam-tam, a video score is projected onto it, and the cellist plays it with contact microphones, scraping, stroking and tapping it and preparing it with cloth, foil, sand, balloons and sandpaper. The cello is prepared too (clothespins, paperclips, erasers, foil), the notation ranges from graphic to precise, and the performer also vocalises invented syllables.
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