WHEN MATCHSTICK DESCRIBED that part of their intention with the Strike Anywhere project was to generate works that could easily be performed outside, my imagination immediately drifted to practices of bellringing. Two specific practices …Read More
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WHEN MATCHSTICK DESCRIBED that part of their intention with the Strike Anywhere project was to generate works that could easily be performed outside, my imagination immediately drifted to practices of bellringing. Two specific practices came to mind: Russian Orthodox bellringing which, in monasteries, is often paired with the striking of a wooden semantron, and Change Ringing with its careful sequences and complete extants.
Quads I takes its name from the Samuel Beckett's television play Quad, with which it has a structural affinity. "Quad" could also refer to the number of performers, or the work's usage and traversal of four-note harmonies.