Alarm Will Sound | CRVD performed by Alarm Will Sound @alarmwillsound | Uploaded June 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Amadeus Regucera, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound
Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 29, 2017
Notes from the composer:
The origins for "CRVD" ("carved") can be found in a smaller sketch called "SKRWL" ("scrawl") from 2016. In this piece, I set my sights on a "perforated" sound – like a piece of paper that is torn very gently – and treated it as an object-in-time. The title, "SKRWL" is a reference to a simple visual expression: to scrawl or to scribble. The artist Cy Twombly is for me a model in this respect: his style of abstraction, evoking prosaic visual gestures, as well as his recourse to the text and his bold allegories in reference to mythology or classicism are formidable examples of how the past can illuminate and transform the present as the future. This version for Alarm Will Sound is a deepening of the original concept. In conception, dynamic, and orchestration, the surface-scribbles and the initial music is "carved" into time. I enjoyed the opportunity to expand my original idea into a grotesque, seemingly unwieldy corpus of sound and noise.
Just as I have the feeling that a single word can open multiverse, a single sound, or a single silence, has the potential to become or mean anything. It is this posture that I chose in this piece and that is what I aspire to when I compose.
Amadeus Regucera, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound
Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 29, 2017
Notes from the composer:
The origins for "CRVD" ("carved") can be found in a smaller sketch called "SKRWL" ("scrawl") from 2016. In this piece, I set my sights on a "perforated" sound – like a piece of paper that is torn very gently – and treated it as an object-in-time. The title, "SKRWL" is a reference to a simple visual expression: to scrawl or to scribble. The artist Cy Twombly is for me a model in this respect: his style of abstraction, evoking prosaic visual gestures, as well as his recourse to the text and his bold allegories in reference to mythology or classicism are formidable examples of how the past can illuminate and transform the present as the future. This version for Alarm Will Sound is a deepening of the original concept. In conception, dynamic, and orchestration, the surface-scribbles and the initial music is "carved" into time. I enjoyed the opportunity to expand my original idea into a grotesque, seemingly unwieldy corpus of sound and noise.
Just as I have the feeling that a single word can open multiverse, a single sound, or a single silence, has the potential to become or mean anything. It is this posture that I chose in this piece and that is what I aspire to when I compose.
