Instrumentation
1 flute (doubling piccolo) 1 oboe1 Bb clarinet
1 bassoon
1 horn in F
1 C trumpets
percussion (1 player) (Marimba, Glockenspiel, Cymbals)
laptop
harp
piano
strings
The Rise of Exotic Computing
Duration: 12"
for sinfonietta & electronica
PROGRAM NOTES
This short and visceral sinfonietta was inspired by the notion of synthetic or exotic computing, which allows for computer code to grow itself in a kind of organic way. Hence the motifs of the piece quickly spread from instrument to instrument as the piece unfolds in an infectious manner. Like a self-replicating synthetic computer, the material of this work insidiously jumps from instrument to instrument. It was premiered by members of the Pittsburgh Symphony in a club called Static, so it lives quite close to the world of techno.