Simon Steen-Andersen: Double Up [w/ score] (2010)

Simon Steen-Andersen (*1976)
Double Up, for sampler and small orchestra (2010)

Radio Kammerphilharmonie Hilversum
Peter Eötvös, conductor

World Première, 17 October 2010, Donaueschinger Musiktage '10


"Doubling up is a risky strategy, but it can yield large returns"
(investopedia.com)

Double Up is both a term for a risky but potentially powerful investment/gambling strategy on the stock market or in the casino, and it is, of course, the term for what you get during happy hour in a bar. In this piece the term is meant to cover a similar range: From the drunken and sloppy but deeply felt sing-along to the more musical "power of unison" and the potentially rewarding effect of opening up something familiar for reinterpretation and re-experience by distorting or emphasizing its different elements or by presenting it in a new context.

The form is simply two halves exploring two types of linearity with the same material: The linearity of a trivial narrative and the linearity of the inherent musical qualities in the very same sounding snapshots.


© Edition·S – music¬sound¬art
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Orchestration Strategies in Simon Steen-Andersen’s Double Up
https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.16.22.3...

Official Composer Website
http://www.simonsteenandersen.dk/


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