Composer
Eikon
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Solo Trombone and Electronics
8 minutes
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Composed through Psappha Ensembles 'Composing for Trombone' scheme.
First performance:
5 May 2017, St. Michael's Ancoats, Manchester, UK
Tony Boorer, trombone
Programme Note
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Eikon is named after a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth of the same title. While visiting the Barbara Hepworth sculpture garden in St Ives I was struck by the way Hepworth’s sculptures often set a sense of dynamism within a static, timeless object. Sometimes this takes the form of a sense of flow, and is sometimes manifest as a sense of tension between two areas on a given sculpture, often symbolised by taught strings linking two opposed yet inextricably connected areas. Eikon pairs the trombone with recorded samples of a Sound Icon, an instrument invented by the composer HoraÈ›iu Rădulescu, which takes the form of a vertically upturned piano, an image that for me is strongly reminiscent of Hepworth’s string sculptures.