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“time and time again” (2023)

[for violin, viola, and fixed electronics]

time and time again is a piece for violin, viola, and electronics in three sections. Although the sections can be performed integrally, the intention is that these sections appear in various moments of the performance, intertwined between other pieces on the program. As such, the piece time and time again begins to feel like it is slicing one duration of time (that is the whole performance), becoming current time, recuring time, and, to the audience, through the anticipation of not-knowing when or whether next appearance will come, future time. Or – it is starting to feel like the piece’s duration is interrupted by time and these other occurrences (pieces) in it.

The element of the “time past” is not only present through the play with audience’s memory of heard during the performance, but it has its own a second layer of bringing in history – though use of selection of material from Eugene Ysaÿe's Première Sonate à Deux Violons.

The electronics are used to amplify the superposition of times. Material performed live is superposed with processing of the same material in various time-structures, creating sonic illusions of extended, repeated, looped, accelerated time. And at times these processes are also used in the live-performed material.

time and time again plays with time in several layers: perception of time in the moment of performance for the audience, performer’s experiencing of time, and the historical time (through material inspired and derived from the opus of Eugene Ysaÿe).

 

⊶ Premiere
DAS HAUS, January 21st, 2023 by Victor Guaita (viola) and Dejana Sekulic (violin)

 

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