Inside and out… again
Adrian Moore
Programme notes
Inside and out… again is a concert work stemming from the How Many Sounds project. This project set about investigating the use of multichannel audio to manage musical complexity through the creation of plausible environments. As I began to create more intricate sonic environments I noticed that increased complexity often led to the sensation of one environment, one that could be ‘explored’ — a polyphony of sources coalescing to form a monophony of environment. Whilst works like The Battle and Counterattack led to questions, Inside and out… again began to stretch the limits (whilst necessarily being musically coherent).
Inside and out… again draws heavily upon Bernard Parmegiani’s Dedans-dehors and the metaphor of inside / outside, within / without, unreal (unknown, interior), real (known, exterior). I began with environmental sounds
And we have transformations
By taking us from real to unreal within a virtual environment, both are allowed to exist at the same time. It is this construction of environment that continues to fascinate me.
Inside and out… again was a finalist at the 9th Biennial Acousmatic Composition Competition Métamorphoses (Brussels, Belgium, 2016).
Premiere
- May 28, 2016, Música Viva 2016
: Encontro X: Orquestra de Altifalantes, O’culto da Ajuda, Lisbon (Portugal)
Awards
- Composer(s): Adrian Moore
- Year of composition: 2016
- Duration: 12:41
- Instrumentation: 7.1-channel fixed medium
