David Worrall: Cords 2b (1994)

Abstract

"In its original form, Cords (1992) is a polymedia performance work for real-time computer animation and computer music using digital feedback techniques. In the original version, which I made with a student of mine, Virginia Read, the music emanates from 16 channels of loudspeakers in a portable performance space: a seven-metre-radius geodesic hemisphere, and the images are projected on large screens encircling the audience. Cords 2b is a stereo sound-only realisation with more sophisticated real-time analysis and response algorithms. The work is in three movements, a plucked drone softly pulsing throughout: I. Plucked string sounds with accelerando/decelerando percussion accompaniment; II. Percussion solo featuring simultaneous lines, each with different tempo schemes; III. Bowed string sounds with percussion accompaniment. The work was/is composed and performed using the composers real-time composition/performance software Streamer." -- David Worrall