Vlaia
A
decomposition of a Bach Partita
Electric
(or regular) violin and optional electronics
Commissioned
by Elucian words and Music to Ian Peaston
2011
Duration
approx 5 min.
This
piece was developed in a kind of open process, where I and Ian published the
whole process from idea to finished piece on the web.
The
process can be seen at www.elucian.tumblr.com
or at www.twitter.com/elucian.
The
piece itself was composed as a kind of remix or decomposition in the form of
reduction from a Bach partita for violin. The commission was to write a piece
in only 16 bars, so I reduced the original to 16 bars, also prolonging every
bar and changing the tempo, but still keeping to 16 bars. The original was then
repeated and stretched in various ways. The title refer to this process, since
it is a derivation of the original title using the same process.
On
top of this we then added some various effects and a moving drone.