Composition - Sonia Paço-Rocchia

Between the Door and the Staircase

November 2008
for piccolo, live electronics and stage actions

03/12/2008

This is a somewhat theatrical piccolo piece in which the player will have a lot of choices to take. The piece will be greatly different depending who is playing and probably at each performance of the same player.

Score

This is some extracts of my work in max/MSP for that piece. You will there hear my great sound on the piccolo... I blew in a piccolo for the first time compose do this piece...

Whistle-Tones and Clicks
one of the Time
Ds
Clicks
SSSS

Massing

November 2008
for Viola and live electronics

01/12/2008

Massing is a semi-improvised piece in which the viola player must follow one of many possible paths through some textures.

The effects generated from the viola sounds include 16 loops with durations between 5 and 20 second which create massings of moving sounds.

This is the score of Massing.

This is a recording of the pre-première 17th April 2010, that was done on a 5 strings electric violin by Christine Caulfield in Second-Life.

Pedalling Under London's Clouds

January 2008
bicycle solo

15/03/2008

Since Adam lent me his wife's bike (Thank you!), I do often my journeys with this bike. Over my head, I can see the clouds doing competitions:

first arrived there!
first that rain!
first that evaporate!

I rode to the Luminaire for Open Source event (Music Orbit), with this bike. They put me on the front of the stage. Everybody decided to sit on the floor. I was sitting down very close to them, pedalling under London's Clouds.

Open Source 3, on Music Orbit website
Pedalling Under London's Clouds in Belgrade!

Carols Démontés

04/12/2007

I don’t like Carols. In fact, it is not their fault. I hate the over-consuming atmosphere of Christmas. Everywhere you pass you have a huge Christmas tree, a huge present, a huge Christmas sold sign, a huge Santa Claus, and too many people in the shops, because they follow this over-consuming idea, and to attract them, shops put louder then the nearest other shop; Carols. It is very hard for me to dissociate Carols from this atmosphere, it is why, sometime, when I hear Carols, I feel sick.

I decided to play with popular Carols. I had a lot more fun with Carols like that! Maybe it is a sort of remedy?

(score) Here parts for any ensemble.The idea is to have the beginning and the boxes I, II, III and finale in the same key for all the ensemble, but, to play the Carols Box in a lot of different keys. Many thanks at Tom Whitehouse for the translation clumsy English to good English
(audio) Recordingduring the [CoMA Christmas Crackers|/site/?christmas-crackers-at-coma]