contaminant
for solo cello & electronics
2023
contaminant examines the eradication of natural spaces due to extractive economies, new technologies, and human intervention. These factors—which can easily be perceived as removed from day-to-day life—become visceral when interpreted through artistic media as they are brought to the forefront of attention.
contaminant explores the nature of contamination and particularly what is being created and left in its wake. What does retreat sound like? What new future is being created among the destruction of what was? Can there be beauty in it? the cello reacts to the violence wrought by its environment, morphing and changing itself as a decisive agent.
Performances:
version for improvising cellist & electronics premiered by William Teixiera at Holden Chapel at Harvard University on April 16, 2023
version w/score performed by Urban Megušar at Bled Festival Hall in Bled, Slovenia on June 29, 2023
version w/score performed by Urban Megušar at Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana, Slovenai on September 28, 2023
version w/score performed by William Teixeira at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil on September 29, 2023
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