Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
Unspell, for voice and electronics, reflects my continuing interest in the musicality of speech. The “pre-text” for the composition is l’Attente (Waiting), by Roland Barthes, from the book Fragments d’un Discours Amoureux (Fragments from a Lover’s Discourse). Careful work on intonation and prosody is complemented by electronic sounds that function at times as accompaniment, at times as rhythmic or timbral counterpoint. Spoken language, to me, is always pregnant with music. I won’t say much more, hoping the piece will speak for itself.
Recommended Citation
Ruviaro, Bruno, "Unspell" (2009). Music. 34.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/music/34
unspell_folder.zip (52383 kB)
Comments
Voice and electronics, 2 channels [15’00] Premiered by Jessica Aszodi at CPMC Recital Hall, University of California San Diego, on May 6, 2011. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.