Minutia 0-13
Maggi Payne
About this work:
Duration variable from 0-12 minutes. Minutia 0 - 13 is a fully notated piece consisting of 14 separate pages that can be played in any order. The pages vary in duration from 0 - 60 seconds. The performers may repeat any page up to three times consecutively or non-consecutively.
The optimum performance involves three spatially-deployed pianos. This piece explores the piano's sonorities, coincidences during performance, performance/listening/reactive skills on the part of the performers and time/space.
When two or three players are playing, it is almost as if the noise of daily life was going on in compressed form. A player produces some noise, only to be overtaken by noise from another. Some of these noises are sharp, short impulses (kids playing basketball, car doors slamming, someone hammering, doors being knocked on) and others are sustained efforts (helicopters flying over, cars slowly passing by, lawnmowers), and often the subtle, quiet sounds are drowned out by the din of human activity.
Year composed: 1996
Duration: 00:12:00
Ensemble type: Keyboard
Instrumentation:
Instrumentation notes: for 1-3 pianos