Ragnhild Berstad: Con Vitri, Recludo, Quaero and Respicio.
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WHY USE QUARTERTONE INSTRUMENTS?
In my harmonic universe, where notes outside the tempered system have the same importance as the tempered one, Kjell Tore Innerviks quartertone instruments were a great discovery!
As early as in 1993 I wanted to use quartertones on marimba in my piece Mellom fr og etter. By pasting self-sticking rubber on the node-areas under the bars I was able to lower each note by approximately 50 cents. An undesirable side effect of this method was a clear muffling of the marimba sound.
In my work Emutatio I had to use a synthesizer to get what I wanted - a quartertone vibraphone. Initially I used a synthesizer for playing quartertone vibraphone in Recludo too. But during my work I met Kjell Tore, and this meeting was the beginning of a fruitful collaboration. Recludo was followed by Respicio, a solo work dedicated to Kjell Tore's quartertone instruments, vibraphone and marimba. Then I wrote Quaero tilblivelse, an orchestral work where the quartertone vibraphone again has a central position. A new version of Respicio is now in progress expanded with live electronics and pre-recorded sound.
BIOGRAPHY
E-mail Ragnhild Berstad
Pieces by Ragnhild Berstad using the quartertone Instruments:
Con Vitri
Respicio
Quaero
Recludo
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