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Date: Saturday 29 January 2005
Duration: 15 minutes x 8
Venue: Tate Modern
Event: The Sound of Heaven and Earth
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Composer's Notes
Secret Cheese by Eric Roth
Secret Cheese is about the goods that you keep hidden most of the time. It's also a musical-theatrical version of what their public manifestations might be like. It asks the players to engage in group interaction, following and growing an exotic and volatile (and flexible) musical shape for the ensemble. The ensemble follows a verbal script with great flexibility as to the precise timing of events - and, of course, the fittings of the descriptions - but maintains an order and proportions. Ultimately, the shape of Secret Cheese is the ranges of interpretation of the respective directions, a highly complex and zizzy area.
Secret Cheese is dedicated to Seth Kim-Cohen and the memory of Pearl Roth.
Performance Archive
Instrumentation included: Bass by John Edwards,
Bass Saxophone by Tony Bevan, Electronics by Andrew
Morgan, Electronics and Flutes by David Toop,
Harp by Rogeri Davis and Cello by Neil
Heyde.
Performance Recording:
| Secret Cheese - performance 15 min Real Audio |
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Compositional Score
The scores could take any form, from verbal instruction, found sound and poetry, to other music, so long as it is delivered exclusively in audio, with no written text, conducting, physical cues or gestures.
Audio Score:
Eric Roth provided each ensemble member with a unique - spoken word score, listened to via a cd player and headphones. Previous to rehearsal, the entire ensemble was also directed to listen to the instructions included below.
| Instructions for Scores - 128kb mp3 |
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| Bass Sax - 128kb mp3 |
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| Cello - 128kb mp3 |
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| Electronics - 128kb mp3 |
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| Electronics and Flute - 128kb mp3 |
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| Double Bass - 128kb mp3 |
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| Harp - 128kb mp3 |
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Composer's Biography
Eric Roth (b. 1977, Chicago, USA) is a composer, performer (voice, percussion, conductor), educator and an author of poetry and essays. His musics feature exotic musical shapes and animals, deviant harmonies, shadow narratives,
creative applications of incidental sounds, texts, theater, indeterminacy and improvisation. He's written for chamber orchestra, solo snare drum, very large improvising ensemble, string quartet, voices, books, electronics,found sounds, and
other ensembles. Eric's compositions have been performed by William Winant, the Vox Vocal Ensemble, the Ives Quartet, Christopher Froh, ensembles in which he's performed, and others. He,s participated as a composer, performer, producer and
arranger on over 25 recordings including his own Anathema, Program 16 and explosion: cerebral (a cooperative) with plans for two more releases in the near future. He received a degree in both music and religion from the University of Michigan
in 1999. Eric currently resides in Oakland, California and is a MA candidate in music composition at Mills College. His composition teachers include Alvin Curran, Joelle Leandre, and Stephen Rush.
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