David Lancaster

Dragon Music Publishing

Mosquito - for wind quintet

SM-000322434
Compositor
David Lancaster
Editora
Dragon Music Publishing
Gênero
Clássico / Música de Câmara
Instrumentação
Flauta, Clarinete, Fagote, Oboé, Trompa francesa
Composição para
Quinteto, Wind ensemble
Tipo de composição
Partitura completa, Partes
duração
7'45"
dificuldade
Difficult
Ano de composição
2012

descripção
The Mosquito (marketed as the ‘Beethoven’ in France) is an electronic device, used to deter loitering by young people, which emits a sound with a very high frequency. The sound can typically only be heard by people below 25 years of age, as the ability to hear high frequencies deteriorates in humans with age.

In 2007 I collaborated with artist Rory Macbeth on an installation for the exhibition ‘Picturing the Social Order’ (Leeds City Art Gallery) which showed how art had depicted aspects of British class structure and social division over several centuries. Rory asked me to transcribe the sound of the Mosquito device – considerably slowed down and lowered in pitch - to be performed live and in recorded form intermittently throughout the exhibition.
I later discovered that there also exists a similar device which broadcasts ‘royalty-free classical music’ for the same purpose.

In the UK Liberty described the Mosquito as a "sonic weapon directed against children and young people." A report for the Council of Europe in 2010 called for a ban, suggesting use of the Mosquito may breach human rights law.

My piece ‘Mosquito’ makes extended use of that earlier transcription (heard at the outset in flute and oboe) set alongside one of my favourite pieces of ‘royalty-free classical music’, the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis; the extreme contrast is deliberate! At first the two musics alternate in fast/slow cycles but they soon begin to influence one another and to form variations which take the music in different directions.

Mosquito was first performed by Souza Winds in September 2012 and was revised in the autumn of 2017.

data de postagem
31 dez 2017

Preço

Sheet music file
10.00 USD
ZIP, 532.2 Kb

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