FANTASIA FOR FLUTE AND ELECTRONICS: SUGARHOUSE

"In Brandon, VT Bob Weaver and Deb Salzarulo create sculptures for doors with tuned strings and hanging string plastic balls which bounce against the strings when the door is opened. From Bob & Deb’s Sugarhouse, my wife and I were gifted what we call our “door harp” from a family friend from New Hampshire. The sound of the bouncing balls hitting ringing strings while getting faster and faster as they fade away seemed very uncommon, and it is a pleasant thing to hear when you leave or enter the house. For many months, I had great fun tuning the five strings to different chords. When flutist Donna Shin asked me to write her a piece, having the door harp instrument as accompaniment seemed natural. I tuned the different strings to a chord structure and recorded a number of articulations and versions of the bouncing balls and assembled them in my audio editing program. The flute part was written afterward and soars over the electronic track in a dreamland/Shangri-La fashion." - D.J. Sparr

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