JACARANDA
scored | performance
composed, produced, & performed by Leo Gevisser
The title of my composition Jacaranda (for piano and fixed media) is taken after a bright indigo flower-plant that blooms seasonally in certain parts of South Africa—where I lived for 10 years.
An expansion is not only present in the musical content throughout its 8-minute stretch—but also in its outlook. Intervals are gradually approximated within the fixed media through the utilization of JI. This is utilized both against and in conjunction with the live piano’s 12-edo intervals. The fixed media’s naturally-acoustic aesthetic of the felt piano gradually morphs into a fully-electronic, reductionistic synth patch.
Until, by the end of the piece, what’s left is nothing but the remnants of electronically-processed, justly-intoned intervals—those of which cast a dissipated umbra back towards the live piano’s beginning.
Constituents:
2-channel spatialized fixed media track, speakers
Sounds:
Piano
Composed and produced mid-2024
Performed at the Second Round of the 16th Concours de Piano d’Orléans 2024 in Orléans, France as a submission for the Andre Chevillion-Yvonne Bonnaud Composition Prize
