Tessellations

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Composed by
Hugo Bell
Instrument(s)
alto saxophone, clarinet, electric bass guitar, electric guitar, piano, recorder, trombone, vibraphone, violin
With electronics
no
Work premiered
April 2019
Venue of the premiere
United Kingdom
Duration
8 minutes

Tessellations draws inspiration from M.C Escher’s Metamorphoses and explores how its conflict between stasis and movement can be perceived through sound. The piece is based around a series of layered tiling canons which are applied to both pitch and rhythm and distributed across the various combinations of the ensemble comprising of a clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor trombone, bass recorder, vibraphone, piano, violin, electric guitar and bass guitar all of which are amplified.