Cathy Peters: Sonata No.2 'Antimatter'

Abstract

This sonata is 4'33" in length and at that length it can't not refer to John Cage's seminal work of 1952, which forever changed how music and sound are identified and used. 'AntiMatter' is a strange hybridisation of cultures, found sounds in collision over a frantic drone constructed with a phrase from a bamboo gamelan orchestra. Among other sounds, chordal structures are constructed from samples of Chilean wind flutes; wooden and metallic percussion fragments are interspersed with wide stereo sweeps which have been formed from a single sampled note from a Japanese shakuhachi flute.