Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
CF.BE11F
Composed by
Jason Eckardt. Full
score. 78 pages. Duration
16 minutes. Carl Fischer
Music #BE11F. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.BE11F).
ISBN
9780825888595. UPC:
798408088590. 8.5 x 11
inches.
Beginning
in the 1950s, the CIA
became very interested in
psychological research
beingconducted on the
effects of sensory
deprivation on humans.
The research, that
suggestedrapid regression
in those tested, provided
a framework for sections
of what would later
beknown as the KUBARK
manual, the first a
series of US-government
documents thatprovided
techniques for
interrogating detainees.
These methods involved
radicallyaltering a
detainee’s sense
of time and
environment.Among these
techniques, some
developed independently
of the manuals by
interrogators,were the
manipulation of light and
sound. In order to weaken
the resolve of a
detaineeand prolong
“capture
shock,†complete
sensory deprivation
followed by blasts of
light ornoise, or very
loud music, proved
effective. So much so
that variations and
combinationsof these
techniques were widely
used by the United States
as well as both its
allies andenemies in
Vietnam, Latin America,
Northern Ireland, and the
Middle East.Though the
idea of sound as a weapon
is at least as old as the
account of
Joshua’s siegeof
Jericho, it was only
recently deemed
“inhuman and
degrading†for the
purposes ofinterrogation
by the European Court of
Human Rights in the 1978
case “Ireland v.
theUnited
Kingdom.â€.
Accid
entals apply only to the
notes they precede with
the exception of tied or
consecutively repeated
notes.Tempi are
consistent throughout the
meter changes (Le.,
~'=),)=)l, etc.).Grace
notes are always to be
played as fast as
possible. Each grace note
in a group should be of
the same duration.
Gracenotes curtail the
previous measured note's
duration with the
exception noted
below.Approximate
duration: 16 minutes.