Delay Taints
Creators: name: Hope, Cat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190406 Music Composition
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: <b>Delay Taints </b> For dancer, cello and sub tone <br>For Tristen Parr and Laura Boynes (on the occasion of their wedding).<br><br>[There are two versions of this piece, a 2 minute version, and a 15 minute version]. Scores for both are above.<br>You will need the Decibel ScorePlayer to perform this piece (see below).<br><b><i><br></i></b><b><i>PROGRAM NOTE</i></b><br>The score is created from photographs of Boyne's hair, traced over to the create the score information on this animated score: red for movement, blue for cello. Very low frequency tones are also featured throughout the piece, indicated by pink as a guide for the performers. There are two versions of the piece, of 2 and 15 minutes duration, both available as 'performance video's (links below). The 2 minute version was made for the Decibel new music '2 Minutes from Home project' in 2020.<br><b>INSTRUCTIONS</b> Red is for the dance, blue is for the cello. The dynamic is never above medium soft. The red indicates choreography, and the proximity to the cello part on the page should be read literally (ie. close to the cello player) in the performance. A circle indicates start these gestures in, or from, a circle that you make/have. The piece is intentionally slow, gestures should be slow. The score page indicates the range of the instrument (ie bottom of page is lowest note, top is highest). Likewise, the bottom of the page is the floor, the top is as high as the dancer can reach. Crosses for a gentle, Bartok pizzicato, or hard clap/slap/hit; smooth round dots are gentle pizzicato or finger click/softer sound. Dynamics are soft unless the line is thicker. The electronics part is indicated in opaque pink, and plays through the Decibel ScorePlayer, an iPad application that should be used to read the score, into a subwoofer, bass amp or high quality stereo. It is a mono channel. The part is provided as a guide for the performers only.<br> <sub><i><b>NOTE FOR PERFORMERS</b></i><br>The majority of my compositions use scores that are read on an iPad tablet computer, using the Decibel ScorePlayer, an application available on the App Store . Any fixed media is embedded in the score, and some feature automated functions. In the case of ensemble works, multiple iPads can be networked on a LAN or over the Internet so parts can be read in a synchronised way. You should upload the score file (ending with.dsz) to your iPad from your computer via AirDrop on an Apple, or cable from a PC. Instructions on how to do this and using the Decibel ScorePlayer, more generally are included in the Application, which ships with five other scores.</sub><sub> </sub><sub>Thus my works have different versions of the score, as you may see above. A PDF/PNG file of the score ‘image’, a DSZ file to upload onto the iPad for performance, and for some less complex scores, a video version. Hardcopies are also available from my publisher. You can find out more about the Decibel ScorePlayer, and how to make your own scores for it, here.</sub><br>