Delay Taints

Delay Taints

For dancer, cello and sub tone

For Tristen Parr and Laura Boynes (on the occasion of their wedding).

[There are two versions of this piece, a 2 minute version, and a 15 minute version]. Scores for both are above.

You will need the Decibel ScorePlayer to perform this piece (see below).

PROGRAM NOTE

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.

INSTRUCTIONS

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.

_{NOTE FOR PERFORMERS
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.}

_{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.}

PERFORMANCES

Decibel new music ensembel, 2 Minutes from Home, 2020 (online) [2 minute version]

Iran Sanadzadeh and Helen Svoboda, New North, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, June 2022.[ live premiere of full version]

Decibel new music ensemble, 2 Minutes from Home Live, 2022: Revelation Film Festival, Perth, Western Australia   [2 minute version]June 2022; Melbourne Recital Centre, July 2022