TY - ADVS

T1 - Étude aux objets

T2 - For ensemble

A2 - Lewis, Andrew

N1 - Commissioned by UPROAR and first performed by them at Chapter, Cardiff on 26 October 2018

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - "...things begin to speak by themselves, as if they were bringinga message from a world unknown to us and outside us."Pierre ShaefferThe title of this piece is borrowed from Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995), who made some of the first experiments in making sonic art out of recorded noises. He wanted his listeners to forget what his original sounds were, and instead to hear them as objects of beauty in their own right - pure ‘sound objects’. In doing so, he thought, not only will we hear the sounds in a new way, but we will also start to hear new connections these sounds that we were not aware of before. In my new piece I wanted to take the same approach. Instead of recorded sounds my ‘objects’ are fragments of instrumental music, but they are still essentially just sounds. When listening to this piece, we should try to forget everything we know about music, and just listen to the sounds before us. We should listen as if we have never heard any sounds before. If we can do that, new connections can emerge and new, unexpected ‘meaning’ be revealed.

AB - "...things begin to speak by themselves, as if they were bringinga message from a world unknown to us and outside us."Pierre ShaefferThe title of this piece is borrowed from Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995), who made some of the first experiments in making sonic art out of recorded noises. He wanted his listeners to forget what his original sounds were, and instead to hear them as objects of beauty in their own right - pure ‘sound objects’. In doing so, he thought, not only will we hear the sounds in a new way, but we will also start to hear new connections these sounds that we were not aware of before. In my new piece I wanted to take the same approach. Instead of recorded sounds my ‘objects’ are fragments of instrumental music, but they are still essentially just sounds. When listening to this piece, we should try to forget everything we know about music, and just listen to the sounds before us. We should listen as if we have never heard any sounds before. If we can do that, new connections can emerge and new, unexpected ‘meaning’ be revealed.

UR - https://composersedition.com/andrew-lewis-etude-aux-objets

M3 - Composition

PB - CE Composers Edition

ER -