Sonic labyrinths: form and creative process in like knotted strings (2022) for string quartet
like knotted strings for string quartet was commissioned in 2020 by the New York City-based Jack Quartet (through their Jack Studio programme), completed in 2022 and premiered in January 2023. In Jorge Luis Borges's short story, The Garden of Forking Paths (2018 [1941]), the character Stephen A...
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| Published in: | Journal of the musical arts in Africa Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 97 - 114 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Rondebosch
Routledge
02-01-2023
Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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| Summary: | like knotted strings for string quartet was commissioned in 2020 by the New York City-based Jack Quartet (through their Jack Studio programme), completed in 2022 and premiered in January 2023. In Jorge Luis Borges's short story, The Garden of Forking Paths (2018 [1941]), the character Stephen Albert describes the fiction of the author Ts'ui Pen as works which explore all the possible narrative alternatives, in contrast with other authors whose fiction considers only a single outcome. Gary Saul Morson (1994:19), addressing a similar subject, argues that narrative offers both advantages and challenges to our comprehension of time. The metatextual nature of these themes - infinity (related here to narrative possibilities), memory and perception - gave me the impetus to compose like knotted strings, where they are reflected in such a way that musical material comments on the creative process itself. |
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| ISSN: | 1812-1004 2070-626X |
| DOI: | 10.2989/18121004.2023.2291912 |