Lost Time Triptych for piano scordatura, an homage to Gérard Grisey's Vortex Temporum, uses a unique tuning where four notes on the piano are detuned by a quarter-tone.
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The vioara cu goarna is so culturally significant in the Bihor region of Western Romania that it has been adopted as the emblem of the local football team and featured on a Romanian postage stamp.
Compositional Technique
Each piece on the album showcases a different approach to microtonal tuning, ranging from alternative fixed temperaments to just intonation.
Instruments
Forty-Nine, Forty-Nine was composed for the Fokker organ, a microtonal organ in 31-tone equal temperament, which was restored and installed in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam.
Instruments
The vioara cu goarna, a folk instrument from Western Romania, is modeled on the stroh violin and projects sound via a phonograph mechanism and a horn, often a modified bugle.
Composer Biography
Christopher Trapani, the composer, weaves American and European stylistic strands into his music, incorporating elements from Delta Blues, Appalachian folk, Turkish makam, and more.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Christopher Trapani, the composer, shifted his strategy to write music not necessarily meant to circulate to other performers, focusing instead on custom-made instruments for specific musicians.
