Waves.Passing. at NYCEMF

Waves.Passing. at NYCEMF

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Waves. Passing. performed at NYCEMF

Ever since our work together at the NYCEMF festival in 2014 I have wanted to collaborate once again with the exquisite New York based cellist, Madeleine Shapiro. We have had a good creative chemistry together, in addition to sharing some “green” values. We’ve also been sharing artistic ideas and sound recordings with each other. One of these was a field recording from 2017, recorded a calm summer’s day in Kallarvika, Indre-Kvarøy in Northern Norway, featuring the sound of waves creating a natural crescendo-decrescendo following a passing motor boat.

Madeleine, as a part of her SoundsNature project, has established an artistic praxis of improvising to field recordings, highly sensitive of the different elements and dynamics in the recordings. She tried the same with my recording, and after a lot of communication back and forth, she was able to both follow and comment the waves. We then both found that some electronic processing would fit with all this, creating an additiona musical layer, that could further enrich the sonic materials, as well as expand the spatiality inherent in the cello.

New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

The result was the piece Waves.Passing. The piece was selected among almost 500 entries to be featured at the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYCEMF in June 2021. During the festival (June 21-25, 2021), the piece was available for listening through a link in the program book, which can be downloaded here.

Listen to an excerpt of Waves.Passing.