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Speaker 1 00:00:08 Welcome to season two of sound's unexpected, uh, podcast highlighting female, and non-binary artists working with sound. I'm your host Morgan Scoonover today. We'll start our journey with two pieces that merge composition and improvisation,
Speaker 1 00:00:30 The terms composition and improvisation are similar in nature, but are often placed at odds. Composition is a timely process asking the composer to create revise and notate the work with the intention that musicians will perform it as written improvisation. On the other hand is a momentous and spontaneous process where the music is not written, but immediately imagined and performed. Many times. Improvisation can be a beginning step in the compositional process or is performed on top of a composition. For example, in jazz, today's composers have created works that use composition as a way to improvise. In other words, they have created a structure and order for sounds to occur, but have left. Those sounds have to the improvisitory decisions of the performers. What I find most exciting about this kind of work is that every time a piece is performed, it reveals something different.
Speaker 1 00:01:55 Margot N Simmons is a composer, improviser and performer based in both orange, New Jersey and Enosburg Vermont. Today, we are hearing her piece coming home for flute, sex Tet, this sex tech being made up of three C flutes, two Alto flutes, and one base. The piece is concerned with timber and texture and uses images of wind water and rapid murmurs. As a source of sound ideas. The piece has three sections, a thoroughly composed introduction featuring sharp airy attacks followed by sustained harmonies murmurings, which echo the texture of water in a Brook and wind like sounds that are punctuated by percussive attacks created with key clicks and tongue Rams. In the last two sections players improvise based on a series of boxes that provide sound descriptions. Margo believes expressing musical ideas through improvisation and performance is vital to her music making process as well as important skills and experiences for the performers here is coming home.
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Speaker 1 00:13:09 Kendall Perry is a composer performer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York, their work focuses on the, in between inspired by their experience as a non binary trans person living in a binary society. Their compositions use the in between to offer listeners and alternative space that lies outside of fixed realities. Today, we will hear coastlines a piece scored for piano and materials collected from the sea Kendall, develop the score while exploring the different sounds achievable by placing rocks and shells inside the piano. While the structure of the piece was predetermined. What happened in this space in between was left to indeterminacy John cage defined this as the ability for a piece to be performed in substantially different ways. I'll leave you with this quote from Kendall's program in this space between land and sea. There are no dead ends or sharp edges here is coastlines
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