for accordion, three reed ranks, audio-playback, and video

composed by Monika Dalach Sayers

written and composed for Trio Layers 

commissioned by Musica Privata Festival

 

19:00 SUNDOWN  for accordion, three reed ranks, electronics and video is a project commissioned by Trio Layers and Musica Privata Festival. The piece was written for accordion and reed ranks owned by the musicians, taking into consideration their unique sound qualities, limitations, individual scale range and fragility.

 

In this piece I wanted to focus on the sound and its experience; at the present moment - here and now; on what we see and what we hear; 

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The piece was written for instruments owned by the musicians. In the process of creation, each of the three reed ranks were studied to understand their unique sound qualities, individual scales and limitations. The instruments were recorded and the recordings were used as a base for further sound experimentation. The aim was to develop an electronic soundscape that combined together the music played live on accordion and reed ranks into a rich, wide and dark sound mass. 

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The sound may be perceived as fleeting and melancholic. 

 

The essence of 19:00 SUNDOWN is sound and the experience of it. The sound growing out of the departed soul of the accordion reminds of a fleeting moment of nostalgia, a sound represented in the sundown viewed from afar. 

 

The World Premiere of 19:00 SUNDOWN took place in November 2018 at the Musica Privata Festival in Lodz, Poland. 

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Watch 19:00 SUNDOWN trailer here: