Instrumentation: two toy pianos with desk bells, and electronics; optional generative video (designed by R. Luke DuBois)
Duration: 08:30
Year composed: 2017
Commissioner and Acknowledgments:
Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association for the HOCKET Ensemble.
World Premiere:
November 18, 2017, by HOCKET at LA Phil's Noon-to-Midnight
Score:
A full score is available for perusal on issuu
https://issuu.com/peermusicclassical/docs/young_tete-a-tete_sample
Purchase performance materials here.
Max patch (Mac only)
Program Note:
Tête-a-tête: a private conversation between two people.
Two musicians seated at toy pianos engage in vacuous, loving, playful, and sometimes immensely serious face-to-face conversation. They vigorously type coded messages upon their keyboards and send them off to one another with the chime of a desk bell. Sometimes typing, texting, and gestures of symbolism come easier than spoken words.
Duration: 08:30
Year composed: 2017
Commissioner and Acknowledgments:
Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association for the HOCKET Ensemble.
World Premiere:
November 18, 2017, by HOCKET at LA Phil's Noon-to-Midnight
Score:
A full score is available for perusal on issuu
https://issuu.com/peermusicclassical/docs/young_tete-a-tete_sample
Purchase performance materials here.
Max patch (Mac only)
Program Note:
Tête-a-tête: a private conversation between two people.
Two musicians seated at toy pianos engage in vacuous, loving, playful, and sometimes immensely serious face-to-face conversation. They vigorously type coded messages upon their keyboards and send them off to one another with the chime of a desk bell. Sometimes typing, texting, and gestures of symbolism come easier than spoken words.
Listen:
Rehearsal recording by HOCKET
Rehearsal recording by HOCKET
Watch:
Example of generative video projection
Example of generative video projection
Watch:
Performance by Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer
Performance by Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer
Required materials:
To perform this piece, it is recommended that you use the following materials, and configure the instruments as displayed in the images.
- 2 Schoenhut Concert Grand Pianos (37-key). The piece could be performed with smaller toy pianos, but the music will need to be adapted.
- 2 microphones inside the piano, with the lids closed. Either 2 balanced buffered contact mics (like the Cortado MkII Contact Microphones available from Zeppelin Design Labs) secured with gaff tape onto the soundboards of the pianos, or two omnidirectional DPA microphones.
- 2 Desk Bells, pitched at/near "A" if possible.
- audio interface (min 2-in, 2-out)
- XLR cables
- speakers (stereo)
- foot pedal or other trigger
Materials are available for rental, send an email for a rental quote.
