Peter Ablinger:
WEISS / WEISSLICH 17f
Sopransaxofon und Rauschen
soprano saxophone and noise (1996), any lenght with a minimum of 4 minutes
Soprano Saxophone:
choose one single tone
hold the tone as continuos as possible with circular breathing.
4 Minutes minimum.
Noise:
all frequencies, extremely short: a pop;
exactly at the middle of the chosen duration (at 2:00 in the 4-minutes version);
the pop comes through the loudspeaker(s)
and has to be as loud as responsibly possible
(for the sake of the sound system, and the ears),
as well as extremely short (less than 0.01 seconds);
it can be produced by various means, such as:
a prepared pop on CD, a pop from a faulty (pop-producing) switch or a broken cable
(but only when these are practically feasible/controlable), etc;
an example of a pop that can be put on CD and used in performance can be found here (add 0.2 seconds silence before and 4 seconds after the pop to make a CD-track out of it; also, beyond simply playing the 2-channel version, you have the option of using either one alone: the more bass-sounding pop of the left channel, or the white-noise pop of the right)
Other pieces from WEISS/WEISSLICH 17
related documentations:
2 Strings and Noise
Accordion and Noise
Weiss/weisslich 1, for piano solo (1980)
pieces for Instruments and Noise, including PARKER NOTCH
Rauschen, documentation
