related works
Cellobundel II : voor cello en piano / various composers
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vc pf
Darkness at noon : for small ensemble, 1992 / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
cl fg cfg perc cb
Invention : for alto saxophone, electronic organ and percussion, 1982 / Mathieu Geelen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
sax-a perc el.org
Victoria Impression : for timpani, percussion and string quartet / Yip Ho Kwen Austin
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
timp perc 2vn vl vc
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