Program Note
different-tongues explores many of the overlaps between the human voice and the string quartet. Performers are asked to vocalize: making percussive sounds, swishing noises, and humming in conjunction with standard playing.The piece moves from clear separation of voice and ensemble toward an obscuring of timbrel divide before moving back to a clear separation, going through a processes of disembodiment and re-embodiment.
Performed by
Mivos Quartet at the Valencia International Performing Arts Festival in Valencia, Spain in 2024. Recording by Emmanuel Berrido