SOUNZ Centre for NZ Music's video: ALEX TAYLOR: Three Preparations

ALEX TAYLOR: Three Preparations Alex Taylor’s intriguing ‘Three Preparations’ is performed in this Resound film by violinists Anthony Marwood, Sergei Bresler and Monique Lapins at the 2019 Adam Chamber Music Festival. Alex writes, “One of the most useful composition lessons I ever received was also perhaps the most banal. If you’re writing with notes, you really only have two basic decisions to make: first, is the next note higher, lower, or the same pitch? And second, is the next note longer, shorter, or the same length? These three short studies explore some types of linear motion: expansion, contraction, oscillation, acceleration, deceleration, stasis. Studies are by nature repetitive, obsessive even, and these are no exception.” Audio recorded by RNZ Concert. Film funded by NZ On Air. Further information about the composer biographies associated with these films can be discovered at https://www.sounz.org.nz/ Explore our extensive catalogue of scores, CDs, books and resource library at https://www.sounz.org.nz/info-for/sounz-collection-library Connect with on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SOUNZnz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SOUNZnz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sounz_nz/