related works
The Mechanism Fantasizer : from the Album for cello and piano / Nicoline Soeter
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vc pf
1991 : for tenor saxophone, piano and percussion, 1991 / Paul Termos
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
sax-t perc pf
Winds of change : No rhyme no reason, part 2, for viola and guitar trio, 1987 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
3g vla
Rondena : per organo pedale e timpani, 1960 / Marius Monnikendam
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
timp org
composition
Light refractions : for guitar, viola and double bass / Nicoline Soeter
Other authors:
Soeter, Nicoline
(Composer)
Description:
Light Refractions is a free-form composition that plays with the glassy sound of high harmonics and multiphonics. The associative title came about during the compositional process as an image for the overtones and microtonal bends that are generated. The phenomenon of refraction arises when two substances, such as glass and water or water and light, meet. The light changes direction at the point where they intersect.
My work is frequently inspired by scientific observations such as, in this case, an elementary physical phenomenon. I prefer to work these influences out in a poetic interpretation.
Nicoline Soeter