Pendulums

“Pendulums” for solo string quartet and string orchestra or 5 string quartets is a slow and gradual

sinchronisation of 20 pendulums swinging separately at individual tempos. The voice leading of every

single part of the dense micropolyphonic texture reminds of a pendulum swing, the amplitude of which

either expands or narrows, thus intensifying or repressing the sound dynamics. In this freely interpreted

concerto genre the solo parts are not traditionally contrasting the orchestra – they rather organically fall

into the general music texture, just representing another form of the same process, another dimension of

musical time, a larger scale of the fractal.

 

The piece is dedicated for its initiator maestro Jonas Tankevičius and M.K.Čiurlionis string quartet, also

with a hint of commemoration to M.K.Čiurlionis year (a construction gesture of “Pendulums” reminds of

the opening motive from the symphonic poem “In the Forest” – the swinging of the low and high chords)

“Pendulums” for solo string quartet and string orchestra or 5 string quartets is a slow and gradual sinchronisation of 20 pendulums swinging separately at individual tempos. The voice leading of every single part of the dense micropolyphonic texture reminds of a pendulum swing, the amplitude of which either expands or narrows, thus intensifying or repressing the sound dynamics. In this freely interpreted concerto genre the solo parts are not traditionally contrasting the orchestra – they rather organically fall into the general music texture, just representing another form of the same process, another dimension of musical time, a larger scale of the fractal.

 

 

The piece is dedicated for its initiator maestro Jonas Tankevičius and M.K.Čiurlionis string quartet, also

with a hint of commemoration to M.K.Čiurlionis year (a construction gesture of “Pendulums” reminds of

the opening motive from the symphonic poem “In the Forest” – the swinging of the low and high chords)