Apheresis is a large multi-movement piece for 15 performers with custom designed electronic instruments. The piece is inspired by Earle Brown’s Available Forms, uses a score that is rearranged every time it is performed, and fuses various contemporary electronic music styles and techniques.
The piece will combine contemporary electronic music practice such as circuit bending, no-input mixers, laptops, turntablism, analogue circuitry, network sniffers, live coding and soldering to produce sounds electronically. While these instruments have become a normal way of expression for the artistic community, larger ensembles are seldom built entirely from electronic musicians. The piece is written with specific performers in mind, and—given the immense variety of electronic sound production—any work for such an ensemble has to take into consideration the performer’s unique instrument.
