Moon on one side, Sun on the other

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1 Moon on one side, Sun on the other or har and interactive music system 2006 Roert Roe

2 rogram Note (2006) as comosed or Soia Asunción Claro, ho gave the remiere at the 200 International Comuter Music Conerence in Coenhagen The iece comines a notated har score ith a comuter rogram that accomanies the erormance, alying eects rocessing, sound iles, and comositional algorithms in real time as the iece rogresses The rogram as ritten y the comoser in C++ The title comes a scene in Marilynne Roinson s novel Gilead in hich a ather and son ause during their ork to see the moon rising on one side o the horizon hile the sun sets on the other Technical Requirements Ale Macintosh comuter ith audio I/O stand-alone OSX alication availale rom comoser microhone or the har into comuter stereo out rom comuter Mixer (minimum channels) to house sound system

3 Excert rom Gilead Every rayer seemed long to me at that age, and I as truly one tired I tried to kee my eyes closed, ut ater a hile I had to look around a little And this is something I rememer very ell At irst I thought I sa the sun setting in the east; I kne here east as, ecause the sun as ust over the horizon hen e got there that morning Then I realized that hat I sa as a ull moon rising ust as the sun as going don Each o them as standing on its edge, ith the most onderul light eteen them It seemed as i you could touch it, as i there ere alale currents o light assing ack and orth, or as i there ere great taut skeins o light susended eteen them I anted my ather to see it, ut I kne I d have to startle him out o his rayer, and I anted to do it the est ay, so I took his hand and kissed it And then I said, Look at the moon And he did We ust stood there until the sun as don and the moon as u They seemed to loat on the horizon or quite a long time, I suose ecause they ere oth so right you couldn t get a clear look at them And that grave, and my ather and I, ere exactly eteen them, hich seemed amazing to me at the time, since I hadn t given much thought to the nature o the horizon My ather said, I ould never have thought this lace could e eautiul I m glad to kno that Marilynne Roinson 1-1

4 or Soia Asunción Claro Roert Roe Har q» r # OooOOO : n # n # Es An # # A # n Es state 1 n # # Es : # n n state 0 A state 2 Coyright 2006 y Roert Roe # Es # : n

5 OooOOOo state # Es # state n n An 19 # Es A F 19 # # n Ds # # Es # # state # # 2 # # # # # # #

6 # 2 2 ooooo # # # # Dn # # # n Bn # n # # r : B state : Cs # # state 6 - Cn n

7 () 9 9 ( ) loco U 2 # 0 B # U state state 9 OOOOOOo A # An state 10 # n r r Ds loco r # # # # # loco # # # # #

8 2 2 # 6 # R n OoOOOo state 11 9: Dn suito F # r # # state 12 Fs n # # An n # loco # # # # # # # Cs 9 9 # # # # # # # #

9 OoOOO # # # # # 6 # R # # # R 2 2 rit # # # Fn state 1 # # # : n # # # # # Bn n Cn n state 1 q» B G R state 1 6

10 # OOoOOoO Ds R # # 1 1 R # state 16 # Es # n n Gn state 1 R - G n Gn state 1 A n - Dn n Gn R - G G

11 92 92 Cs # # OoOOoo # n Gn 99 # n 99 # 10 # G q» 10 a temo Cn # Ds # # # # R R # # # # # # # Es # state 20 # # # # # # state 19

12 o # n F Dn # o state OOoOoo ȯ # # state 21 # # # o o # # 6 6 Ds o # # # n Dn n # Gn F ~~~~ Gliss # # # # Fs :6 :6 # n 9 # An state 2 # # ~~~ n F # n # Bn # # Cs # # # # #

13 12 12 # # OOOOO # # Cn Ï n state 2 # # gradually lengthen duration o roll g # Gs # # g 12 # 12 g # # g g # # B g # g# F n Fn semre state E 1 n 1 Gn A 10

14 OOooOOo n n An state G U 16 state 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ is isigliando 16 ˆ2 16 ˆ2 r 1ˆ2 1ˆ2 n is state 2 is 16 ˆ2 16 ˆ2 16 ˆ2 16 ˆ2 r C is is 11

15 E OoooOoO state 29 A ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ isigliando is is 16 ˆ2 16 ˆ 2 16 ˆ 2 16 ˆ2 r 16 6 ˆ ˆ2 is n Gn r n is Cn n 1ˆ 1ˆ is ~~~~~~ Gliss ~~~~~ Gliss RÔ RÔ 1 F 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 2 state 0 12

16 OOoOOOo ~~~~~~ Gliss ~~~~~~~ isigliando F state 1 ~~~~~~~ Gliss 2 2 ~~~~~~ Gliss 1 1 ~ state 2 1

17 19 isigliando 19 OOoOOOo ~~~~~ Gliss ~~~~~ Gliss 2 2 # Fs # # # # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # # # state # # # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ gradually slo is into olloing measure ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ # n # RÔ An # # rit # # # # # # q» º # # # E state U # state 1