Hints and Hauntings. for contrabass and stereo digital sound. Kirsten Volness

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1 Hints and Hauntings or contraass and stereo digital sound Kirsten Volness 2010

2 Hints and Hauntings or contraass and stereo digital sound Perormance Notes: Perormer must e amliied ith microhone or alance ith ixed media layack. Temos and note durations given u until rehearsal letter D are aroximations. Perormer should ollo the notated electronic cues to align the ass art ith the layack y olloing the sacingtiming oservale eteen arts. Some discretion and ersonal interretation is exected. Exressive execution o the musical hrases is aramount to rhythmic exactitude and may require some listening ith the score to get the eel or it. Harmonics are notated at the node lightly touched; hen a dierent itch results, cues o sounding itches aear aove. From rehearsal D to the end, the temo is 12 m; thereore, it is recommended that the click track e routed to the erormer via headhones. Electronic sounds are laeled in oxed text or descried y the olloing key: Program Note: Hints and Hauntings is a astiche aying homage to a long list o inluences and exeriences that have shaed my musical lie. I sought to use sounds I once ound ar more revalent in my daily existence, hose asence and ossile uture osolescence I ve noticed. (You ll ind I sent a lot o time as a child listening to records and reading the dictionary.) Formative sonic exeriences ind their ay into the iece as ell, like laying in a drumline and discovering electronic music, rom early analog sounds to my teenage years dancing in clus. I anted to exlore the contraass s range o exressivity, articularly its caacity or lyricism, its almost transarent timre in the uer registers, the unk only it can ring, and the sheer oer that those lo, slo sound aves can maniest, hile roving to mysel that such an unieldy east o an instrument (I say, lovingly) can e tamed. Duration: :02 Commissioned y the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance Written or eremy Baguyos

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8 F 8 (:29) n n n j j j j j 1 (:) # # n n ù û # n ù j û r

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10 8 70 H (:) Y æ æ r m (:9) < 7 æ j j r æ

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12 10 (:1) I Driving 82 æ æ. j ù û 8 j # # n n n n n n j ù j û ù û æ j j

13 (:22) 8 11 n j r r æ ù j û 88 n n n n O j ù û m # # j

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16 1 K (:0) 97 n n ~ Y 99 sul onticello 102 s.. sul tasto j U Y 9" U hono noise