Degree Recital
Marco Neri, composition
27, March, 2022, 8 pm
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Building
Free admission
PROGRAM
¿Aún escuchas mi voz?
Rachel Cooper, Bb Clarinet
Kayleigh Francis, Alto Saxophone
Julien Haynes, Viola
Enrico Tuazon, Cello
if (on); update (off);
Deniz Pekmezci, Percussions
Automaton-Music
Cleo Yong, Violin
Dana Wenzel , Artificial Violin
Marco Neri is from the class of Dr. Anthony Tan
This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the Master of Music Composition program.
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Program Notes
In these works, I reflect on my aesthetic perspective about control and transformation in music. Each piece has a unique process, and I did not consciously create a connection between them. However, these two concepts remained latent and revealed the principle substance of these works.
Control unfolds into two ideas: power and freedom. Power is the control exercised over another, and freedom is the control exerted over oneself. In a musical domain, this concept is closely related to timbre and represents an individual trait of the performers. Timbre depicts and separates them from the other instruments and instrumentalists. In this sense, timbre is the freedom of sound to manifest itself as the performer's singular and unrepeatable characteristic. In these works, the performers constantly labour to maintain their individuality. However, they are forced to merge with other instruments in this music and consequently renounce some of their freedom.
On the other hand, the concept of transformation means a shift in language: translation from one language to another. In this music, movement translates into sound and vice versa. The entity that decodes these languages is an interface closely related to the score. The music score for this music is not a paper. It is decoupled into fragments and scattered inside gadgets and computer programs. Thus, the interface is the core of these works, and the score is the equivalence of a translation interface.
