One-Page Score Project – Allyson Clay (score), Matthew Ariaratnam (music)

One-Page Score Project – Allyson Clay (score), Matthew Ariaratnam (music)

When ennui has a throbbing soul (in three parts)

Premiered 12 March 2021 as part of Painting Music – One-Page Score Project presented by Vancouver New Music and Laboratorio.

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Notes from Matthew Ariaratnam:
When ennui has a throbbing soul (in three parts)
I, II, III

With Allyson’s score I worked with my sense of sight, playing with my gaze, and shifting between a soft focus and a more rigid focus.

This gazing sent me to different parts in each score at different times – sometimes moving from left to right, right to left, up and down, backwards and forwards. The gaze allowed me to play with the shapes and lines relationship to foreground and background.

I played one part at a time. I hear the first two parts as having lots of rhythmic play because of the angular lines and also the use of colour gives me certain energetic and harmonic information. I felt that the rhythmic rigidness and restlessness of the first two sections let itself go in the last painting – with its curved lines and softer colour in the middle. I allowed myself to play the softest and with more space in that section.

I tried keeping Allyson’s ideas of intermittence in my work with shorted out notes, clicks and pops, and preparations of objects interfering with the guitar and the sounds produced.

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