Gruyères Bells
Pete Stollery
Programme notes
Gruyères Bells uses a single recording of a herd of Red Holstein cows, carrying bells around their necks. The higher the ranking of the cow in the group, the deeper the bell tone, so there is a huge range in this particular herd. At the same time as enjoying this keynote sound of the area, I am concerned about the damage this is doing to the animals’ hearing and aware of the inevitable tension between the desire amongst certain stakeholders to preserve this emblematic sound and the possibility of silent GPS devices doing the same job in the future.
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Gruyères Bells was realized in 2021 in the composer’s studio in Monymusk (Scotland, UK) and premiered on June 5, 2022 in the Salle Molière of the Opéra Comédie in Montpellier (France), as part of the Klang
Premiere
- June 5, 2022, Klang
électroacoustique 2022! : Concert, Salle Molière — Opéra Comédie, Montpellier (Hérault, France)
Awards
- Composer(s): Pete Stollery
- Year of composition: 2021
- Cycle: Aides… mémoires…
- Instrumentation: ambisonic fixed medium
