Dr Faustus "Encuentros" part 4 (1 of 2): Apocarpous (Inés Thiebaut)

Apocarpous : of a flower or fruit having distinct carpels that are not joined together. This piece has been in progress for more than two years, and it first took the shape of a Woodwind Quintet. The sonorities that I was trying to explore then work much better in this new setting though, due to the nature of the string instruments incorporated, as well as percussion. Timbre exploration and its capacity to transform a single pitch into many different sonorities, and later, the fight to get out of that exploration are the two main ideas behind this work. Performed at the Tenti Cultural Institute, NYC, on 25/10/2009, by: Second Instrumental Unit (David Fulmer, conductor/director)