Chamber Ensemble
SKU:
BT.MUSM570364886
Composed by Helen
Papaioannou. Score Only.
184 pages. University of
York Music Press
#MUSM570364886. Published
by University of York
Music Press
(BT.MUSM570364886).
English.
Zeta
Potential was composed in
2012 for the Nieuw
Ensemble from Amsterdam.
This piece was
commissioned as part of
the European Composers
Professional Development
Programme, led by
Huddersfield Contemporary
Music Festival. Zeta
Potential is the
scientific term used for
a calculation which
measures the stability of
semi-fluid/semi-solidsubs
tances. The piece Zeta
Potential plays with the
capability of the
ensemble and texture to
remain as a coordinated
and stable system. The
piece traces a constant
flux between ‘solid’
and ‘fluid’ textures,
framed around cycles of
growing and decaying
musical patterns
whichundergo constant
transformation.