Moose imitating moss
- Instrumentation
- Cello
- Composed
- 2005
- Duration
- 6'
- Publisher
- Svensk Musik (Swedish Music Information Centre archive; PDF score sold from the work page)
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About this piece
Anna Eriksson, a Gothenburg composer, sound artist and guitar teacher, wrote Moose imitating moss in 2005, and Emma Nordlund played the first performance at Västerås Konserthus on 29 October that year [1][2]. It opens "Mecanico" [3] with one bowed bar looped for about thirty seconds, then switches to plucked chromatic lines marked "Liberamente" [3] that run through a fixed cycle of 6/8, 4/8, 3/8, 6/8, 5/8 and 4/8 bars. The second section takes up the bow again, sul tasto and slurred, and at the end the sound thins until only the harmonics are left [3]. Eriksson also made a version for two guitars, and Nordlund's recording appears on the 2009 portrait CD named after the work [2][4].