Koan for String Quartet has been performed in Aarau, Albi, Basel, Berlin, Borås, Bremen, Bristol, Brno, Burnaby, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edenkoben, Gothenburg, Graz, Guanajuato, Huddersfield, Jakarta, Kingston, Los Angeles, Montréal, Montreuil, New York City, Oslo, Ostrava, Valencia, Vancouver and Victoria…
In 1971 I wrote a piece called Koan for solo violin which was concerned with the perceptual effects of an absolutely linear and predictable formal process — involving a bowed tremolo progressing through a series of microtonal intervals on progressively higher pairs of strings. The first violin part in this “KOAN for string quartet” is essentially the same as that earlier piece, but here the other instruments of the quartet are used to provide a harmonic context — and thus a harmonic “Meaning” — for each of those microtonal intervals, within a fairly complex, just tuning system. The resultant sonorities might be conceived as a complex “chord progression” on various different roots or fundamentals. Some of these sonorities will be quite familiar to the Western ear; others are rather more “exotic”. But they are all derived by a simple extrapolation from traditional harmonic relationships.
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May 2003
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Düsseldorf (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
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May 2003
2:00 pm
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Aarau (Switzerland)
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Sept 2003
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Montréal (Québec)
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Dublin (Ireland)
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ArnoldBarryRizzutoTenney |
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Gothenburg (Sweden)
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Borås (Sweden)
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Oslo (Norway)
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Apri 2004
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Basel (Switzerland)
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May 2004
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Montréal (Québec)
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May 2004
8:00 pm
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Montréal (Québec)
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Nove 2004
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Los Angeles (California, USA)
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Augu 2005
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Ostrava (Czech Republic)
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Marc 2006
4:00 pm
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Berlin (Germany)
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Marc 2006
5:00 pm
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Edenkoben (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
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Sept 2006
8:00 pm
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ArnoldGoldsteinLaporteTenney |
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Berlin (Germany)
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Dece 2006
8:00 pm
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Valencia (California, USA)
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Apri 2007
8:00 pm
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Montréal (Québec)
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Augu 2007
7:30 pm
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Montréal (Québec)
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Octo 2007
10:00 pm
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Oslo (Norway)
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Nove 2007
12:30 pm
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Burnaby (British Columbia, Canada)
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Nove 2007
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Victoria (British Columbia, Canada)
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Nove 2008
8:00 pm
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Graz (Austria)
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Nove 2008
4:00 pm
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Huddersfield (England, UK)
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Marc 2009
8:00 pm
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Brno (Czech Republic)
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Febr 2010
2:30 pm
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Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)
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May 2010
8:00 pm
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Bremen (Bremen, Germany)
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Febr 2014
1:00 pm
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Bristol (England, UK)
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Janu 2015
1:30 pm – 6:30 pm
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Montréal (Québec)
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Janu 2015
8:00 pm
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New York City (New York, USA)
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Marc 2015
8:00 pm
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Kingston (Ontario, Canada)
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June 2016
8:00 pm
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Montréal (Québec)
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Augu 2018
8:00 pm
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Jakarta (Indonesia)
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Octo 2018
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Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)
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Octo 2019
8:00 pm
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Albi (Tarn, France)
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Octo 2019
7:00 pm
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Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis, France)
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Octo 2019
5:00 pm
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Guanajuato (Mexico)
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Marc 2020
7:00 pm
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Berlin (Germany)
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