Bells (2011)
Instrumentation: clarinet, flute, piccolo, percussion, many spatialized percussionists
Electronics: Yes
Duration: 23'
Commissioned for Alice Tully Hall's "Tully Scope Festival", as part of ICElab.
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Notes: A look into the sounds and meanings of our means of communication, Bells was commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble and premiered at Lincoln Center to open the first Tully Scope Festival. It is a site-specific work, flexible and adaptable to a variety of spaces and durations. Separated throughout the space, winds, bells, and gongs provide the primary musical material. Live ring modulation of the instruments and recordings of radio signals such as morse code, number stations, and electrical interference from space are broadcast to audience members' mobile phones. Set on speaker, these phones play similar material but each crackles and distorts at different frequencies, creating a moving, shimmering texture within the audience.