a metastable harmony: string quartet

This forms part of a larger project of compositional research that treats instruments as resonant spaces, examining how different forces activate and sculpt the natural resonant frequencies of that space, and composing pieces that explore this harmony either systematically or performatively. See also the collection of pieces called There are neither wholes nor parts.

a metastable harmony (audio file)

score pdf

Performed by Quatuor Bozzini, HCMF, 26th Nov 2012