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- Matthew Aucoin
Poem for Violin (2012)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
- violin; with optional typist or presentation software and projected text
- 8 min
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Composer note
The Poem for Violin is the earliest piece that I'd still call my own; I wrote it in college, and revised it shortly after I graduated. I composed it for Keir GoGwilt. Keir and I share a double interest in music and words (poetry, essays, critical theory), and this piece is a duet for music (the violin) and words (the accompanying poem). It is also a duet for sound and silence: in the score, there are two lines — the violin's notes and the poem's words. The poem unfolds in time alongside the music, and while the piece can be performed simply as a piece of music, ideally the poem is projected onto a screen, word by word, at the pace specified in the score. The music and words "talk to" one another — they seem to be reaching for one another across the invisible, fluid boundary that separates the two media, examining one another with mutual longing and fascination.
— Matthew Aucoin
Listen to a recorded performance
Composer note
The Poem for Violin is the earliest piece that I'd still call my own; I wrote it in college, and revised it shortly after I graduated. I composed it for Keir GoGwilt. Keir and I share a double interest in music and words (poetry, essays, critical theory), and this piece is a duet for music (the violin) and words (the accompanying poem). It is also a duet for sound and silence: in the score, there are two lines — the violin's notes and the poem's words. The poem unfolds in time alongside the music, and while the piece can be performed simply as a piece of music, ideally the poem is projected onto a screen, word by word, at the pace specified in the score. The music and words "talk to" one another — they seem to be reaching for one another across the invisible, fluid boundary that separates the two media, examining one another with mutual longing and fascination.
— Matthew Aucoin