Peter Ablinger:
PARKER NOTCH
for Solo-Instrument and Noise (2010)
The instrumental part can be played by any (fast) instrument from f# (f# below middle c) to c3 (high soprano c), 4'25"
The instrumental part is a sort of automatic transcription from a record of Charlie Parker playing "Lester Leaps In". The original record constitutes itself as one layer of the piece, but is treated by a "notch filter" that erases the area from 200-1100Hz, the fundamental pitches of Parker's playing. The notch makes room for the instrumentalist's "Karaoke", which in fact is highly virtuosic - the tempo is M.M.347 - but even so, almost nothing of that can be really heard: Not the solo, nor the "accompanying" tune. Both are almost completely wrapped into a dominating static noise containing the totality of sounds from the original record, merged into a single monochrome noise colour. (english notes edited by Austin Buckett)
The notch (spectrograph)
The score is available for various transposing instruments.
Here is the score in C:
> full score in C (71 KB)
and this is the preface of the score:
> preface (14 KB)
> listen to the end of the piece, bass clarinet: Gareth Davis
Recordings:
> 7" vinyl record, bass clarinet: Gareth Davis
> digital recording, alto saxophone: Henrique Portovedo
for the paper version of the score, any transpositions of the score, for the performance-CDs, as well as for more information, contact the publisher:
ZEITVERTRIEB WIEN BERLIN
Bryan Eubanks, Gotzkowskystr. 15, D-10555 Berlin,
T: +49 / 176 / 47 39 29 97, zeitvertrieb@proton.me
> other pieces from the "instruments and noise"-series
> WEISS / WEISSLICH 17, Instrument und Rauschen
> Rauschen, documentation