Great White

for two sustaining instruments and Quintet.net (or electronic performers) For Georg Hajdu 2016 Premiered at Hochschule fur Music und Theatre, Hamburg, November 2016. Spectrum Project Space, WA ''Shock of the New" march, 2017 Each acoustic instrument chooses a colour from pink and orange. They follow this colour for the whole piece. The top line is the highest point, the bottom is the lowest. When the line gets thicker, they dynamic and density should increase. When the line is opaque, the tone should get thinner and softer. Dots are pizzicato or short notes. The performers should feel free to take contours and pitches from the grey notation when it appears beneath. The five sections of grey music notation are to be ‘interpreted’ by electronic musicians, using Gerog Hajdu's Quintet.net environment, who may use the ‘adjusted’ midi files available here if they wish. The title ‘Great White’ refers to the great white dead men of music history and women’s struggle to find a place in that history. It is also a sideways reference to the rare species of shark that is hunted in the composers’ home state, and the hierarchy of traditional and graphic notations. Each music manuscript excerpt is from an important composer that spent time in Hamburg, Germany, where the piece was composed. The acoustic instruments interface with the music excepts (already being altered by the electronic performers) firstly by overlaying without any impact on the work, then tracing, then becoming increasingly ‘interfering’ - eventually blocking out most of the music score and concluding with general confusion and a ‘free for all’. The piece was composed during a DAAD/Universities Australia sponsored research collaboration with academics at HfMT in Hamburg, Germany. The score should be read in the Decibel ScorePlayer app on an iPad, but can also be read as a video score. The piece is eight minutes long, and has an audio file embedded which should also be mixed in with the electronic performers parts.本作品为两件持续音色乐器与Quintet.net（或电子演奏者）而作，献给格奥尔格·哈伊杜（Georg Hajdu），创作于2016年，2016年11月于德国汉堡音乐与戏剧学院（Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg）首演。2017年于西澳州光谱项目空间（Spectrum Project Space）的“新的冲击”（Shock of the New）展演活动中呈现。每件原声乐器将从粉色与橙色中选取一种色彩，并在整部作品中沿用该色彩。音轨上线条的顶端为该乐器的最高音，底端则为最低音。当线条变粗时，乐器的演奏力度与织体密度应随之提升；当线条变为不透明时，音色应愈发纤细柔和。线条上的圆点代表拨弦（pizzicato）演奏法或短音符。演奏者可自由取用下方出现的灰色记谱中的线条轮廓与音高信息。五段灰色音乐记谱需由电子演奏者借助格奥尔格·哈伊杜的Quintet.net平台进行演绎，演奏者亦可根据需要使用此处提供的“调整版”MIDI（Musical Instrument Digital Interface）文件。作品标题“Great White”（大白）一方面指代音乐史上被载入史册的男性作曲家，以及女性音乐人在该历史中争取一席之地的抗争；另一方面则暗喻作曲家故乡州份中遭到捕杀的珍稀鲨鱼物种，以及传统记谱与图形记谱之间的层级关系。每段音乐手稿摘录均出自曾在汉堡（本作品的创作地）生活过的重要作曲家之手。原声乐器与（已由电子演奏者处理过的）手稿摘录片段的互动过程分为几个阶段：首先是无干扰地叠加，随后是模仿跟进，接着逐渐变得愈发“介入”——最终遮蔽绝大多数乐谱，最终以整体的混乱与“无拘无束的即兴”收尾。本作品创作于德国学术交流中心（DAAD）与澳大利亚大学联合资助的研究合作项目期间，合作方为德国汉堡音乐与戏剧学院的学者。乐谱需通过iPad上的Decibel ScorePlayer应用程序读取，亦可作为视频乐谱进行阅览。作品时长为八分钟，内嵌音频文件，该音频需与电子演奏声部进行混音处理。