Miniature for violin
Sally Reid
About this work:
The Miniature for Violin and Tape (1984) is one of six studies for soloist and digitally generated tape. (The others are for alto saxophone, trumpet in C, English horn, piano and oboe.) The romantic solo line appears against an electronic background which is based on motives characteristic of the individual electronic instruments. The electronic motives articulate the more flowing solo lines of the violin.
The work was realized on the pre-MIDI, micro-computer based alphaSyntauri system, an eight-bit, multi-timbral system which utilized the sixteen digital oscillators of the Mountain Computer cards designed for use in Apple II microcomputers. The score was generated using a crude (by today's standards) first generation computer notation system which permitted graphic representation of taped events resembling traditional music notation, but in which time is only represented spatially.
Version: with electronics
Year composed: 1984
Duration: 00:05:00
Ensemble type: Electronic Instruments and Sound Sources:Prerecorded Sound and Live Instrument(s)
Instrumentation: 1 Violin, 1 Prerecorded Sound (Tape/CD/Other)
Instrumentation notes: violin and electronics (CD)