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Fabrication 29: Spiel
2019

2 string quartets

duration 6'

SCORE

PROGRAM NOTE
I typically write music with fairly involved programmatic intentions along with forms that echo or amplify them. However, I also enjoy music that simply unfolds a process or a ‘conceit’. Fabrication 29: Spiel is a component part of a larger 32-movement cycle for various ensembles ranging from solos and duos to works for orchestra. These Fabrications explore more mechanical approaches to generating music. Each has a subtitle; a synonym of ‘fabrication’ which says something about the piece itself.

In Fabrication 29: Spiel a single line (taken from Fabrication 13: Monster) is accompanied by trills and decorations. These trills and decorations begin to engulf the single line until they are revealed as the true material of this work – the original tune was the work’s ‘spiel’ not its substance

see also Fabrications