Bowerbird:
CATHERINE LAMB’S
“CURVO TOTALITAS”

Philadelphia, PA

December 2 @ 8:00pm

Bowerbird is pleased to present Yarn/Wire performing the Philadelphia premiere of Catherine Lamb’s “Curvo Totalitas”.

On the score, Lamb describes the piece: “Synthesizer musicians play their material (which are filtered partials of the percussion recordings) in an unforced manner. Melodic contours unfold slowly, relative to the total time. Tones in contours may occasionally be articulated more than once to discover a well-situated phase relation in a given moment. Tonal development consists of blurring together to form harmonic densities from melodic contours, more isolated highlighting aggregates, as well as lingering sustain points being collected and released. Responsiveness and resonance is depending upon the width of the filter around particular partials in time. Shiftings are very gradual.”

PROGRAM

Catherine Lamb: Curvo Totalitas (2017 version)
for 2 synthesizers, steel sheet, tam tam