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Violin (optional amplification), fixed electronics (playback), and fixed visual effects (playback, optional).
Approx. 7 minutes.
The title Déjate Caer may be loosely translated as "let yourself fall." The piece takes its inspiration from poem 35 from Árbol de Diana by the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik. The free verse one-stanza poem invites surrender to the raw experience of living, embracing both pain and existence itself as part of a deeper, nocturnal truth. Pizarnik uses repetition with slight displacement: images or phrases reappear as echoes of themselves, slightly shifted, creating a suspended state of self-reflection, circling in on itself before the poem suddenly breaks into a bare statement. The opening gesture of this work mirrors this structural motion: a slow ascending and descending scale shared by the live violin and its recorded counterpart, beginning in unison and gradually slipping out of phase. Then, the collapse—the fall as a movement toward a revelation.
Premiered by James Lyon in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2014.
This download includes: Digital score (with beat cues); digital part (without beat cues); Patch Guide (PDF); and a link to download the standalone Max patch app for performance (hosted on Google Drive, as the file is too large for this download): Download the Max patch app.
*The standalone Max patch can be run on any macOS and Windows computer. It includes a playback system that allows the performer to trigger audio tracks as needed, from the stage, using the laptop keyboard or an external MIDI controller (such as a MIDI foot pedal or MIDI keyboard). It also includes a scrolling score, with a metronome, and a beat counter to follow beat cues written in the score.
Violin (optional amplification), fixed electronics (playback), and fixed visual effects (playback, optional).
Approx. 7 minutes.
The title Déjate Caer may be loosely translated as "let yourself fall." The piece takes its inspiration from poem 35 from Árbol de Diana by the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik. The free verse one-stanza poem invites surrender to the raw experience of living, embracing both pain and existence itself as part of a deeper, nocturnal truth. Pizarnik uses repetition with slight displacement: images or phrases reappear as echoes of themselves, slightly shifted, creating a suspended state of self-reflection, circling in on itself before the poem suddenly breaks into a bare statement. The opening gesture of this work mirrors this structural motion: a slow ascending and descending scale shared by the live violin and its recorded counterpart, beginning in unison and gradually slipping out of phase. Then, the collapse—the fall as a movement toward a revelation.
Premiered by James Lyon in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2014.
This download includes: Digital score (with beat cues); digital part (without beat cues); Patch Guide (PDF); and a link to download the standalone Max patch app for performance (hosted on Google Drive, as the file is too large for this download): Download the Max patch app.
*The standalone Max patch can be run on any macOS and Windows computer. It includes a playback system that allows the performer to trigger audio tracks as needed, from the stage, using the laptop keyboard or an external MIDI controller (such as a MIDI foot pedal or MIDI keyboard). It also includes a scrolling score, with a metronome, and a beat counter to follow beat cues written in the score.