beyond release
Ketty Nez
About this work:
Written in 2007, "beyond release" was commissioned by David Gompper, director of the Center for New Music ensemble at the University of Iowa. I started sketching a ‘concertante’ work featuring solo cello, but several months and many notes later, had a thought: what could be better than one cello? The rich combination of two celli presented itself, as well as the considerable challenge of counterpointing the soloists’ mid and low-range timbres against the rich orchestral palette. Musical textures are derived from my improvisations with algorithms of controlled randomness in sonority and rhythm, using IRCAM’s OpenMusic software; these processes I have developed over a series of recent compositions. Though I usually interweave allusions to other types of music, this time, however, I set out to write ‘straight music’ – released from stamp of time and place.
Year composed: 2007
Duration: 00:16:00
Ensemble type: Orchestra:Chamber Orchestra with Soloist(s)
Instrumentation: ,2 Cello soloist(s)
Instrumentation notes: 1.1.1.1/1.1.1.1/perc/piano/strings (no cb)