Tom Flaherty - Looking for Answers for Piano Trio and Electronics (2011) [Score-Video]

Tom Flaherty - Looking for Answers for Piano Trio and Electronics (2011)
I. Frozen Questions
II. Contemplation
III. Dance
Mojave Trio
Sara Parkins, violin
Margaret Parkins, cello
Genevieve Feiwen Lee, piano
Program Note: Looking for Answers augments a standard piano trio of violin, cello, and piano with electronically manipulated sounds derived from the same instruments. The sonorities and certain stubbornly recurring intervallic structures in “Frozen Questions” seek answers with serious but nearly paralyzing determination.
In a series of inwardly spiraling thoughts, “Contemplation” interacts with and is often swept away by an electronic fog of modified piano sounds. “Dance” shrugs its shoulders and turns its back on the quest, mixing dance rhythms from several continents and cultures. Perhaps this is the only appropriate answer.
Looking for Answers was written for the radiant Mojave Trio.
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[@cesdewar]

Structurally interesting, and changes in texture and rhythms drive that too ..

[@TomFlaherty2]

I. Frozen Questions 0:05
II. Contemplation 6:40
III. Dance 12:38

[@jmiller1918]

Intriguing work! I like it.

[@engloute]

Great music! Does it come with the electronic part prerecorded or the musicians are expected to record it themselves?

[@TomFlaherty2]

Thanks! The electronics are prerecorded, and a click track is available also, though the cues in the score make that less than essential.

[@nyapsta1]

@@TomFlaherty2 I was wondering the very same thing and came across the answer on the American Composers' Alliance page. Before looping back and finding your answer here! 🤦‍♂ I am curious to understand how you created the 'electronically manipulated sounds derived from the same instruments'!

[@TomFlaherty2]

@@nyapsta1 I edited audio files of the instruments in a program called Kontakt. (Lots of other programs could do the same thing.) Reversed, filtered, transposed versions of the files were then arranged and recorded to complement the live players’ performance.