Douglas Geers
Invisible Arms
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Invisible Arms is a piece of electrified, semi-improvised chamber music, which can be (and has been) performed with accompanying video and dance. The instruments are violin, electric bass, two percussion, and eight channels of electronics, six of which are "mobile" during the piece. The electronics contain samples from television, harmonic blocks, and a recording of my grandfather I made for a high school civics class. The violin and bass parts are written out, but the percussion parts improvise from graphically-notated parts. This recording was made live at Bathe in the Blue Light, August 1999. Maja Cerar, violin; John Lee, bass; Ramin Amir Arjomand, percussion 1; Toby Broadie, percussion 2. The video track for the premiere was created by Christine Sciulli; choreography by Julie Grinfeld. For a video documentation of a performance of this piece, please email me.
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