Rūta Vitkauskaitė

Intenvizonatationarium (2009)

Duration:

11’14”

Instrumentation:

2.0.1.0.sopr sax (2)/1.1.2.1/timp.perc(2)/pno/el g. bass g.

Programme Note

The score was written as a commission for Orkest de Ereprijs which was an honour received with getting 1st Prize at Apeldoorn Young Composers Meeting in previous year for my 3-min. orchestral piece, MADRA. During that year, when writing the piece, I had big changes happening in my personal and professional life. I was living on a small croocked couch in someone’s living room, while starting to run a year-long international project involving 300 international guests. My mind was both distracted and chaotic, quite overwhelmed, where previous experience merged with new and created new thinking patterns, and this piece represents that. I combined motifs and techqniques used previously thoughout my practice, but created a form that represented journey through the collage of aleatoric and extended techniques, resulting into something new – rather tonal, repetitive conclusion.