Anxiety (version for cello and electronics)

for cello and electronics (2021)

Performance Score

This piece includes an electronic part. Contact info@blackteamusic.com to obtain the electronic part after purchasing the sheet music.

by Leanna Primiani

$30.00

SKU: LP-SI003 Category: Tags: ,

Description

Duration

7 min

Premiere

July 19, 2021
Nicholas Photinos, cello

Bang On a Can Summer Music Festival
MASS MoCA
North Adams, MA

Instrumentation

cello, electronics

Program Notes

This piece was written as a visceral confrontation between the internal and external world during COVID. The inner world is represented by the fierce lyricism of the cello which invokes tropes of solitude, isolation and rumination; meanwhile, the electronics represent an outer world that entails massive strife. The cello and electronics interface, but one is left with an unmistakable sense of anxiety, as suggested by the title. While the cello part is marked in common time, the cello part itself is written to suggest timelessness. Time weighs heavily in times of great conflict and this piece—sometimes in the syzygy between the two worlds, and sometimes through the stark differences between the two worlds—conveys exactly that.

— Leanna Primiani

Watch the video of the world premiere performance.