Kieran Daly - Unprompted Trio Movement or Some Timbre Transfer Sequences
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- 1unprompted movement for flute, piano, violin
- 2some timbre transfer sequences (after greta monach)
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Unprompted Trio Movement or Some Timbre Transfer Sequences features two compositions for chamber trio and synthesized speech, respectively, composed by Kieran Daly in spring 2025.
Side a—'unprompted movement' for flute, piano, and
violin—focuses on a quasi-homophonic keyboard texture of primarily major and minor triads underneath a harmonically nebulous melody played in unison with violin. The unison melody is duplicated by flute, albeit in quarter-tone tuning and with many onset deviations and elisions. The harmonic rhythm of the triads is functionally independent of the melody, and vice versa, yielding a resultant continuity of parallel structures consolidated by their mutual asynchrony, mezzo-piano articulation, and suspension of metric accents and formal arcs.
Side b—'Some Timbre Transfer Sequences (after Greta monach)'—primarily uses elevenlabs voice changer as a dynamic timbre transfer tool to supply a compositional morphology from source audio files of monophonic non-speech sounds generated by the composer using digital synthesis and electric guitar. Text-to-speech generation was also employed, with source texts comprising strings of mostly nonce and onomatopoeic words. The piece is dedicated to dutch composer and sound poetry pioneer Greta Monach.
Unprompted Trio Movement or Some Timbre Transfer Sequences features two compositions for chamber trio and synthesized speech, respectively, composed by Kieran Daly in spring 2025.
Side a—'unprompted movement' for flute, piano, and
violin—focuses on a quasi-homophonic keyboard texture of primarily major and minor triads underneath a harmonically nebulous melody played in unison with violin. The unison melody is duplicated by flute, albeit in quarter-tone tuning and with many onset deviations and elisions. The harmonic rhythm of the triads is functionally independent of the melody, and vice versa, yielding a resultant continuity of parallel structures consolidated by their mutual asynchrony, mezzo-piano articulation, and suspension of metric accents and formal arcs.
Side b—'Some Timbre Transfer Sequences (after Greta monach)'—primarily uses elevenlabs voice changer as a dynamic timbre transfer tool to supply a compositional morphology from source audio files of monophonic non-speech sounds generated by the composer using digital synthesis and electric guitar. Text-to-speech generation was also employed, with source texts comprising strings of mostly nonce and onomatopoeic words. The piece is dedicated to dutch composer and sound poetry pioneer Greta Monach.
