Bouncing
viola and electronics
2010
Written for collaborative project with choreographer/dancer Valerie Durham and violist Sarah Hart
First Performance in February 2010 at at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (University of Maryland College Park)
Notes
The piece explores the connections between ricochet bowing in the viola and the physical responses that this provokes from the dancer. The third and last movement of the composition incorporates electronics and, as it happens in other, similar collaborative works, the use of the performing space occupied a central role in the creation of this piece.