Four
Voice Canon #18 (“Trio Canon for Christian Wolff”)
Date: 2002.Instrumentation: Indeterminate
Elements:
Permuations of four symbols.
Comments: Each of
three players for each voice picks two or three symbols, and associates them
with a sound or type of sound (resting on the other one or two symbols). For
multiple groups at different tempi, or for multi-tracking. In addition, players
get solos in the different voices, instead of playing their “lists” (determined
by the group). On the Cold Blue CD, four tracks of trios are used (different
soloists in each track), at tempo ratios: 6:7:8:9:10.
Written originally for myself (fretless electric guitar), Nathan Davis
(percussion), and Ha-Yang Kim (cello and electronics). Recorded and mixed by
Miriam Kolar, 2002, released on the Cold Blue CD.