Year of comp: 2011
Instr: f string quartet
Duration: 14
Publisher: SMIC
Premiered: 2012-06-12
Place: Florens, Villa Romana
Performers: Quartetto Maurice
ID-number: GB7874
PROGRAM NOTES
The second quartet of Odd Sneeggen was written in late 2010 and early 2011, therefore directly after the première of the first string quartet.
What lingered on from the performance of the first quartet was a set of sounds that was interesting to explore; this had nothing to do with the material in the first quartet as such, rather, the new work was influenced by the actual sounds of the instruments.
A starting point in the composing of the second quartet was bypass the use of so many new, or extended, techniques in terms of the tone of the work, with a special effort being made to expose the quality of the “pure tone”. Many of the parameters which decide the form of work are based around the Fibonacci series – these include time signatures, tempo and duration. Numbers are also governing elements of the tone material.