{"id":1653,"date":"2021-10-06T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:16:46","slug":"new-work-moon-selected-for-inclusion-in-2022-taipei-international-new-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"New work “Moon” selected for inclusion in 2022 Taipei International New Music Festival (Oct. 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My new nine-minute quartet for zhonghu, guzheng, alto saxophone and tuned percussion (marimba doubling vibraphone), titled Moon<\/em>, has been selected in the latest call for works of the Taiwan Branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM).\u00a0 It will receive its premiere in the 2022 edition of the Taipei International New Music Festival.<\/p>\n

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For Mandarin readers, here’s the notification showing the selected works and composers:<\/p>\n

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I’ve written English and Mandarin programme notes for the piece:<\/p>\n

Moon<\/em><\/p>\n

Three separate conceptions of the Moon, two cultural and one scientific, appear in collage, mutually influencing and transforming.\u00a0 Of the two cultural reactions to earth\u2019s satellite, the most prominent throughout is a vignette of the blind street-musician, imagining (for he cannot see it himself) the moon\u2019s image on the rippling water; this music is linear, improvisatory, consisting of three themes labelled \u201ccontemplative\u201d, \u201clyrical\u201d and \u201cexuberant\u201d, which appear in rotation eight times in total.\u00a0 The second vignette is of the Bergamasque Pierrot, delicate and hypersensitive, hero of the symbolists, his reverie played in compound triple time.\u00a0 The harsh and barren reality of the physical moon, our nearest celestial body and the only one beyond Earth upon which humankind has set foot, imposes itself upon the music: the moon as cold, inert, impassive, awesome.\u00a0 The footage of the vast translunar space and the orbit above the surface of the moon taken from Columbia during the Apollo 11 mission prompted some of the musical textures. \u00a0The four voices of the quartet perform the different musical materials in ever-changing combinations, the cultural vignettes in particular undergoing an \u201calienation\u201d brought about by the encounter with the physical moon, integrating this into their fabric, but not before a peak of baffled and mystified etiolation has occurred.<\/p>\n

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This will be the first time in twelve years that an original composition of mine has been heard by a Taiwanese audience– the last time was back in 2010, when I put on a Composer Portrait during my six months as an exchange student at National Taiwan University.\u00a0 That was an unforgettable experience, and I’m delighted to be given this opportunity once again to participate actively in the contemporary music scene in Taiwan after living and working here for two years.<\/p>\n

You can read about some of the pieces which were performed in my Composer Portrait concert back in 2010 below:<\/p>\n

Two Pieces for Violin and Piano (2008\/10)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n