David Fennessy
The room is the resonator
(2009)
for violoncello and electronics
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation details:
violoncello
live electronics
Fennessy - The room is the resonator for violoncello and electronics
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David Fennessy
Fennessy: The room is the resonator
UE35893
Orchestration: for violoncello and electronics
Type: Spielpartitur
David Fennessy
Fennessy: The room is the resonator
UE45453
Orchestration: for violoncello and electronics
Type: Zuspielmedium
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Throughout the piece the cello plays against a long, held chord which I recorded on an old harmonium that resides in the garage of my girlfriend’s mother in Aberdeen. There’s something about that instrument, that garage, that day – there’s a stillness in that room, you can hear yourself. As I sat there listening to the pedals pushing air through the instrument my mind drifted to other places, other rooms…
David Fennessy