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
Two sonnets of a dark love : for horn, harp, violin, viola and violoncello, 1995 / Maarten Surtel
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
h hp vl vla vc
It's going Up : for bassoon, vibraphone and strings / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fg vib 4vl 2vla 2vc db
Fuga : flauto, oboe, violino, viola, organo, 1938 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl ob org vl vla
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