Logo
2013
6 min
Violin and live electronics
(Max/MSP software, 9-channel output)
Pariisi 13.4.2013
Eun Joo Lee, violin, Sampo Haapamäki, electronics
Clement Marie, sound design
IRCAM, Espace de projection
Instrumentation
Violin and live electronics
(Max/MSP software, 9-channel output)
Performances
Premiere: April 13, 2013
Eun Joo Lee, violin
Clement Marie, sound design
Sampo Haapamäki, electronics
Cursus 1 concert
IRCAM, Espace de projection
Paris
July 1, 2014
Maria Puusaari, violin
Timo Kurkikangas ja Anders Pohjola, sound design
Time of Music festival
Viitasaari Church
Viitasaari
February 19, 2015
Charlotte Munn-Wood, violin
Nina C. Young, sound design
Composition Recital
Victor Borge Hall, Scandinavia House
New York, NY
April 18, 2015
Charlotte Munn-Wood, violin
Nina C. Young, sound design
Charlotte Munn-Wood’s Masters Recital
Bossi-Comelli Studio
The Manhattan School of Music
New York, NY
August 31, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Maria Puusaari, violin
Mikko Ingman, sound design
Association of Finnish Soloists
Klang Concert
Camerata Hall, Helsinki Music Centre
Helsinki
April 16, 2016, 2 p.m.
Maria Puusaari, violin
Timo Kurkikangas, sound design
Tampere Biennale
The Old Library House Cultural Centre, Music Hall
Tampere
June 7, 2016, at 8:15 p.m.
Aleksi Kotila, violin
Taavi Oramo, sound design
¿Miksei? festival
Vapaan Taiteen Tila
Vilhonvuorenkuja 15-16
00500 Helsinki
August 2, 2016, 7 p.m.
Aleksi Kotila, violin
Taavi Oramo, sound design
Eloa-festivaali
Öljysäiliö 468
Kruunuvuorenranta
at the end of the road of Koirasaarentie, on the shore
00590 Helsinki
July 27, 2017, 6 p.m.
Rachel Koblyakov, violin
Jacques Warnier, réalisateur en informatique musicale Sylvain Cadras, ingénieur du son
Anaïs Georgel, technicien du son
Le festival Messiaen au pays de la Meije
Église de La Grave
Pays de la Meije
December 8, 2017, 7p.m.
Aleksi Kotila, violin
Alejandro Olarte, sound design
Samuli Arrela and Ani Zakareishvili, sound engineering
NYKY Ensemble’s concert
Sonore Hall, Helsinki Music Centre
Helsinki
on Tuesday, February 19, 2018, 20 p.m.
Roxane Leuridan, violin
(Ensemble Hopper)
Gilles Doneux, sound design
Concert ECCO – The European
Contemporary Composers Orchestra;
Coproduction: ECCO,
Le Centre Henri Pousseur and Le Senghor;
Le Senghor – Centre Cultural d’Etterbeek
(366 chaussée de Wavre, 1040 Bruxelles)
Brussels
Program notes
Logo for violin and live electronics was composed in 2013. The name of the composition, Logo, can be thought to refer to its shortish duration of 6 minutes. Logo is my first composition with live electronics. From the point of view instrumentation it is then a kind of premiere of a new genre for me, a starting point for a possible path.
It was very inspiring to compose Logo during Cursus 1, a composition and music technology course at Ircam in Paris. I am grateful for all the Cursus 2012-13 teachers (Éric Daubresse, Jean Lochard, Grégoire Lorieux, Mikhail Malt, Alexander Mihalic, Mauro Lanza), especially my tutor, Grégoire Lorieux. I am thankful for very talented violinist Eun Joo Lee who in three weeks created a unique premiere of Logo.
In the live electronics of Logo, there have been used harmonizer, frequency shift, granulation, filtering, delay, spectral delay, reverb and spatialization (Spat) in Max/MSP program. There is also used sound files which are modified or created with Max/MSP, MicroPlayer, OpenMusic, AudioSculpt, Pro Tools, Spear and Sound Studio. Ircam violin samples and a recording of a tibetan bell were used as raw material for the sound files. Pierre Stordeur, a Cursus colleague, borrowed me his tibetan bell, which he had brought from China, Sichuan province.
In the live electronics of Logo, there are used for example 3/4-tone clusters and 3/4-tone scales. If the violin plays E, from it sometimes the live electronics construct a 3/4-tone cluster or scale (E – F quarter sharp – G – A quarter flat – A sharp – B quarter sharp – C sharp – D quarter sharp – E). In the overtone series, the intervals between 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th overtones, are close to 3/4-tones. This connection between overtone series and 3/4-tone scale have been used in Logo.
Logo has only one written tempo, quarter note being 60, with few rallentandos and accelerandos. Violin textures are mostly comprised of scales, zigzag gestures and arpeggios. From the point of view pitch structure the violin part for example consists of fifths and 3/4-tone scales.
Sampo Haapamäki