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Robin
Hayward
Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau Basse
(elegy to a failed instrument)
Plateau Square; Travel Stain; Nouveau
Saxhorn Nouveau Basse
Robin Hayward, microtonal tuba;
Seth Josel, guitar (Travel Stain)
Please note: This release packaging comes folded into
quarters, ending up as a 5 ½” x 5 ½” brochure style
booklet (liner
notes inside), with the CD in a paper sleeve, all inserted
into
re-sealable plastic sleeves. There is no jewel case, tray
card etc.
There is a bar code.
The tuba player and composer Robin Hayward has
introduced
revolutionary playing techniques to brass instruments,
initially
through the discovery of the ‘noise-valve’, and later
through the
development of the first fully microtonal tuba in 2009. In
2012 he
invented the Hayward Tuning Vine, initially as a
visualisation
of the harmonic space implicit within the microtonal tuba.
Collaborations include such musicians as Roberto Fabbriciani
and
Charles Curtis, along with composers such as Christian
Wolff, Alvin
Lucier and Eliane Radigue.
His new Pogus release Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau Basse
features three extremely fascinating microtonal compositions
by Hayward:
In 1852 Adolphe Sax developed a series of instruments he
named the
‘Saxhorn nouveau basse’. The result of a radical rethinking
of the
valve system, each of the instrument’s six valves could only
be used
independently from the other valves. By avoiding valve
combinations,
each valve could be tuned to lower the pitch by a different
tempered
interval, enabling the player to play in tempered tuning.
The
instruments were unsuccessful. In 2009 Hayward developed the
first
fully microtonal tuba (together with the musical instrument
manufacturers B&S.) This instrument is also equipped
with six
valves, but now valve combinations are an integral part of
the
microtonal system. Inspired by Sax’s instruments, each valve
is however
only used independently in the piece Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau
Basse
– an elegy to Sax’s failed invention. Six loudspeakers
are
distributed throughout the performance space, assuming the
role of the
valves of the ‘Saxhorn nouveau basse’. The tones played
using each of
the different valves of the microtonal tuba travel from the
first to a
higher numbered loudspeaker and then back again, from where
they are
sent to the seventh loudspeaker, which is placed backstage
and acts as
a metaphor for the bell of the ‘Saxhorn nouveau basse’. Due
to the
routing between the loudspeakers, in which each intermediate
stage is
rerecorded, each tone’s timbre is gradually altered as it
travels
through the room and becomes increasingly mixed with the
room acoustic
– an analogy to the effect of the valves on the tone of
Sax’s
instruments.
A common way of visualizing harmonic relationships is as a
three-dimensional lattice. The space between prime numbers 3
and 7,
lying between the horizontal and diagonal axes, is therefore
depicted
as a series of ascending plateaus. Plateau Square
explores the
harmonic space implicit within one of these plateaus, whilst
projecting
it onto the physical space of the performance area. Each of
the four
speakers of the quadraphonic sound system represents a
corner of the
plateau, and the microtonal tuba pitches are routed to the
corresponding speakers by means of sensors attached to the
valves.
In Travel Stain for guitar and microtonal F tuba, a
hexagonal
graphic score defines the harmonic and rhythmic framework
within which
musical decisions may be taken spontaneously. The six sides
of the
inner hexagon represent the six strings of the guitar, which
are tuned
in accordance with the same subharmonic series upon which
the
microtonal tuba tuning is based. The harmonics of each of
these
subharmonic partials are in turn notated within each
associated outer
hexagon. Starting at the lowest hexagon, the musicians
explore the
harmonic and rhythmic space implicit within this structure,
moving
gradually clockwise until all hexagons have been activated.
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