Leo Chadburn, Vapour Descriptors
Instrumentation
Two pianos - pianists also sing.
Duration: 6 minutes | Written: 2014
Programme Note
The vocabulary of the perfume industry: technical, scientific, archaic, evocative. In this piece, two pianists sing a set of descriptors that might be applied to scent, accompanying themselves with vaporous chords.
Except for one moment, the pianists play alternately. The consecutive harmonies are closely or distantly related, producing a varying interference, which seems to hang in the air between the two instruments, placed as widely apart as practical.
Live Performances
- Kate Halsall and Fumiko Miyachi, 24 November 2014, Huddersfield Contemporary MUsic Festival
- Kate Halsall and Fumiko Miyachi, 6 December 2014, Goldsmiths University, London
Recording
Appears on the album Slower / Talker, performed by Kate Halsall and Leo Chadburn (pianos and voices).
