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Film, Video Intuit (a way to stay in this world): Miya Masaoka & Kathryn Bates

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Title

  • Intuit (a way to stay in this world): Miya Masaoka & Kathryn Bates

Summary

  • Composer Miya Masaoka was paired with cellist Kathryn Bates of the Del Sol String Quartet to write a new work for solo cello entitled "Intuit (a way to stay in this world)."

    From the Composer
    This piece begins to push at the liminality of microtonal ways of playing within underlying tonal centers. How to balance dynamic range and tone color/timbre within a contemporary practice? What is sacrificed, what is gained in such a scenario? In this piece, there are limited modalities for the performer to control and negotiate the suggested and indicated delicate balance of these parameters in the score.

    Just as this musical balance is negotiated, so is the balance of our lives in lockdown. This piece is a positive and optimistic hope for a way to be present in the outside world of lockdown, and a wish to find a healthy balance between our own interiority and the outside world, which, under such extraordinary circumstances, we seek relief.
    --Miya Masaoka

Event Date

  • June 17, 2020

Running Time

  • 3 minutes 14 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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