Faculty Sponsor(s)
Andrea Reinkemeyer
Subject Area
Music
Description
Slap! for String Quartet (2023) was written for the Pyxis Quartet as part of the Lacroute Composer Readings and Chamber Music Mentorship Program at Linfield University. It was inspired by Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum, which uses foot and hand percussion in a work for a string ensemble. Supermaximum was one of my first encounters with unconventional techniques in western art music, and the wonder of it stuck with me. I use some of those techniques in this string quartet, reshaping that wonder and making it my own.
Recommended Citation
Gatien, Elana, "Slap! (2023) for String Quartet" (2023). Linfield University Student Symposium: A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Achievement. Event. Submission 48.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/symposium/2023/all/48
Slap! (2023) for String Quartet
Slap! for String Quartet (2023) was written for the Pyxis Quartet as part of the Lacroute Composer Readings and Chamber Music Mentorship Program at Linfield University. It was inspired by Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum, which uses foot and hand percussion in a work for a string ensemble. Supermaximum was one of my first encounters with unconventional techniques in western art music, and the wonder of it stuck with me. I use some of those techniques in this string quartet, reshaping that wonder and making it my own.
