Cambia

_http://www.c500.org/afmm/cambia.wmv_ (http://www.c500.org/afmm/cambia.wmv)

Cambia is my most receent piece, from the AFMM concert on May 15, 2010.
It is for bassoon and 3 Gayageumists (Rami Seo, Stephanie Yoon, and Sarah
Yoon).

I'd love to hear your reactions... :) Johnny Reinhard

p.s. Program notes:

Johnny Reinhard’s CAMBIA was composed to provoke a previously unknown
time, and place. Nine years ago, aerial sonar located two cities on the banks
of an extinct river, now submerged in the Gulf of Cambay, in Gujarat,
India. Each city was the size of Manhattan, and radiocarbon tests traced back
9,500 years, to the end of the ice age. The instrumentation of three Korean
gayakeums is a direct reference of a descendant of ancient Indian musical
culture. The natural microtonal character of the instruments, due to the
extreme bending of the strings, makes for a fresh tessitura of timbre for
the bassoon to interact. One might imagine the bassoon as a great leader of
the imagined ancient land of “Cambia.” The inspiration for the piece is
also largely a result of working with the Yoon sisters for a period of 3
years, and with their teacher, Rami Seo, for the past year. The tuning of the
two 12 string-instruments follows a single improvised tuning devised by
the composer that was duplicated on the second instrument, and then recorded
electronically for future rehearsals and performance. Spectacularly
surprising, except for two of the 12 notes, ten of the microtones are aurally
identical to a previously undisclosed Korean tuning that still defies a
translation into cents. However, the full sound spectrum is the true tuning of
the piece, with the bassoon bouncing off one moment, and leading the way to
ever newer sound experiences at another.

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This is great!!

And I especially love your bassoon playing! Lovely sounds!

The two woman in front give the impression of being living dolls. Wild.

Chris

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:53 PM, <Afmmjr@...> wrote:

>
>
> _http://www.c500.org/afmm/cambia.wmv_ (http://www.c500.org/afmm/cambia.wmv)
>
>
> Cambia is my most receent piece, from the AFMM concert on May 15, 2010.
> It is for bassoon and 3 Gayageumists (Rami Seo, Stephanie Yoon, and Sarah
> Yoon).
>
> I'd love to hear your reactions... :) Johnny Reinhard
>
>
> p.s. Program notes:
>
> Johnny Reinhard�s CAMBIA was composed to provoke a previously unknown
> time, and place. Nine years ago, aerial sonar located two cities on the
> banks
> of an extinct river, now submerged in the Gulf of Cambay, in Gujarat,
> India. Each city was the size of Manhattan, and radiocarbon tests traced
> back
> 9,500 years, to the end of the ice age. The instrumentation of three Korean
>
> gayakeums is a direct reference of a descendant of ancient Indian musical
> culture. The natural microtonal character of the instruments, due to the
> extreme bending of the strings, makes for a fresh tessitura of timbre for
> the bassoon to interact. One might imagine the bassoon as a great leader of
>
> the imagined ancient land of �Cambia.� The inspiration for the piece is
> also largely a result of working with the Yoon sisters for a period of 3
> years, and with their teacher, Rami Seo, for the past year. The tuning of
> the
> two 12 string-instruments follows a single improvised tuning devised by
> the composer that was duplicated on the second instrument, and then
> recorded
> electronically for future rehearsals and performance. Spectacularly
> surprising, except for two of the 12 notes, ten of the microtones are
> aurally
> identical to a previously undisclosed Korean tuning that still defies a
> translation into cents. However, the full sound spectrum is the true tuning
> of
> the piece, with the bassoon bouncing off one moment, and leading the way to
>
> ever newer sound experiences at another.
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>

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When first I announced the video of my latest piece Cambia, I had only the
video camera sound. Now, the digital sound recording has been merged with
the video, thanks to Michael Shaffer, on the American Festival of
Microtonal Music's web site. It is a great improvement. Hope you have the
opportunity to check it out:

_www.afmm.org_ (http://www.afmm.org)

Johnny Reinhard

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