Melt
Monty Adkins
Programme notes
This work initially grew out of my daily travels to the studio in Birmingham, from my then home some thrity kilometers away. Melt is a poetic depiction of a train journey and draws on Turner’s painting Rain, Steam, and Speed (1844). By its very subject matter, it makes reference to Schaeffer’s early work Étude aux chemins de fer (1948). The quality of Turner’s later work that appeals most to me is the sense that more definable objects have been painted over, how hard lines have been dissolved. There is a sense of implication and suggestion. The work is based on the mediation between extremes
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Melt was realized in 1994 in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (UK) and premiered in 1995 at the Synthèse Festival in Bourges (France). The work was awarded a Prix Résidence at the 22nd Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 1994) and the 1st prize of the Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden, 1995).
Premiere
- June 1995, Synthèse 1995
: Concert, Bourges (Cher, France)
Awards
- Composer(s): Monty Adkins
- Year of composition: 1994
- Duration: 11:41
- Instrumentation: fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISRC: CAD500619340
