Lyric Movement for Violin, Winds and Electronics (Original composition)

Lyric Movement for Violin, Winds and Electronics is a musical composition for solo violin concertante and an orchestra comprised of wind and brass instruments with real-time computer-generated sound synthesis played by a keyboard player. The electronic part is not meant to come to the fore as a soloistic part, but rather serves as an enhancement to the musical and timbral texture of the orchestra, playing a coloristic background role in some sense analogous to that which may might normally be filled by the harp, percussion or even string section in a larger orchestra. The pitches in electronic part sound as notated.; The sound synthesis engine used in the composition was programmed in the C programming language by the composer. It employs physical modeling synthesis techniques whereby the sound produced is calculated not by simulating the resulting waveform of a given instrument, but rather by modeling sound-producing objects, and allowing the sound to result from their interaction in space. The modeled objects in the electronic part are strings played by wind exitations and hammered interactions. There are two playing modes for the electronics: with and without pedal. The use of the pedal does not provide a sustain as it does on the piano, but rather serves to eliminate the sharp hammered attack of the notes played.