Surface Tension
Jonty Harrison
Programme notes
Strictly speaking, surface tension is the phenomenon exhibited by liquids which permits heavy objects to float and enables some insects to ‘walk on water.’ My Surface Tension, however, is based not on water sounds but on dry, brittle sound material derived, quite literally, from rubbish. This paradox is only one of several through and around which this piece weaves a meandering path
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Surface Tension was realized in the Charybde and Circé studios of the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB, France), and in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (UK) and premiered on May 30, 1997 at Palais Jacques-Cœur during the Synthèse Festival (Bourges, France). The piece was commissioned by the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB, France)
Premiere
- May 30, 1997, Synthèse 1997
: Concert, Palais Jacques-Cœur, Bourges (Cher, France)
- Composer(s): Jonty Harrison
- Year of composition: 1996
- Duration: 13:01
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: IMEB
- ISRC: CAD500014160
