The Mountain

for electroacoustic quartet

Duration: 6 minutes

Instrumentation:
Violin
Bass Clarinet
Seaboard
Materials

Seaboard:
The Seaboard senses pressure and movement on a silicone playing surface. For The Mountain it’s connected to a specially designed digital instrument that responsively combines synthesis with sampling into tones that develop as they are sustained longer.

Materials:
Metal, cork, cardboard, plexiglass, glass, wood, and stone, amplified with contact microphones and processed electronically.

Composed with support from the Performing Arts Fund NL

Presented by Ensemble Resilience at:
Festival Dag in de Branding, Korzo Theater, The Hague (NL)

Musicians:
Natalie Kulina – Violin
Marco Danesi – Bass Clarinet
Paolo Gorini – Seaboard
Tomek Szczepaniak – Materials

Video by Eric de Clercq