Transduced (2020) US premiere
Transduced (2020) will premiere in US, in a concert Percussion Ensemble (Thomas Burrit, director ) with the the Experimental & Electronic Music Studio (Januibe Tejera, director) in Bates Recital Hall, Butler School of Music - University of Texas at Austin.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Justina Repečkaitė’s Cursus IRCAM composition Transduced (2020), for percussion, 3 transducers, and electronics was premiered by Yannick Monnot and filmed at the Center Pompidou. Since its creation, Transduced was performed by Romane Bouffioux in Colombia in 2022.
Ondřej Adámek - Fishbones
Justina Repečkaitė - TRANSDUCED
Ian Whillock - ImperceptibleAndPerceptibleThings
Sven-David Sandström - Drums
Program note
Transduced seeks to make the snare drums radiate. Pre-recorded brief percussive gestures are injected into the snare drums via transducers, mirroring the musician, while the instrument's vibrational modes are later translated into resonating harmony. Ratios of theoretical modes of an ideal circular membrane tuned to a fundamental snare drum frequency (182 Hz) create harmony and also serve as pulses for the rhythm in the score. Spatialization movements are created from figures showing nodal and circular lines of the first 12 modes. Divergence between noise and inharmonicity is expressed in resonance models that range from noise with a comb-like filter to the filtered harmony of a theoretical membrane, from measured mode frequencies of different parts of a snare drum to the analyzed harmony of a saturated cymbal.
Transduced explores the inner relationship between physical models from the snare drum used in the electronics part and electronics transferred back to the snare drums, inviting you to experience the imagined atmosphere of being inside the instrument itself.
First 12 modes of a theoretical membrane.
