Giovanni Piacentini's piece 'Magnetic' aims to create a 'magnetic musical field of energy' between the two players, ultimately forming 'one instrument' from their duality.
Composition History
All the works on this album were commissioned by Duo Scorpio, the performing artists, and five of the six pieces are world premiere recordings.
Performer Biography
Duo Scorpio, the performers on this album, consists of Katie and Kristi, who share the same birthday: November 5th, 1982.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Andy Akiho's 'Two Bridges' was inspired by the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges in lower Manhattan, which he imagined as 'colossal harps' with suspension cables as strings.
Compositional Technique
Paul Patterson's 'Scorpions' uses the six numbers of Duo Scorpio members' shared birthday (11/5/1982) to create its main melodic line, starting from C and assigning numbers 1-12 to the chromatic scale.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Westchester Studios in February 2016, with Adam Abeshouse as the Producer and Recording Engineer.
Compositional Technique
Ferdinando DeSena's 'Harp Dance' uses two harps with different seven-tone tunings, sharing five notes but having two unique notes each, to create a nine-tone aggregate for the composition.
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