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... and right here: String quartet "The Emperor's Wardrobe", movement four
Where did the idea start? Using a string instrument, you can kind of simulate human speaking, just like this: Demonstration by violinist David Alberman
And then? How may this become music?
Listening tips
The piece is not yet live performed, it is only a simulation. Try to forget about electronic sounds and imagine that real players are actually performing this. You may ask, why not to await a real performance, and rightfully so! Here is the answer: This may take much more time to happen. Maybe, in the meantime, we can enjoy the composition in it's first "wardrobe" as a kind of "acoustic notation"?
Try to detect the spots, where you feel that an instrument is really "talking" to another one or when you feel some of them are talking as one. This may change every second! The same way, instruments rapidely find each other to perform a simular gesture or one that opposes another one, just at the next moment.
Do you find the flow of the conversation exciting or rather boring?
Listening a few times to the same passage may let you discover more and more of sound "relationships" or figures of "sound speech". Can you feel a similarity to natural figuration you are used to discover when you zoom into stones or wooden structures, or imagine what clouds are looking like, while they are changing at every moment?
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