Knights of the Strange: Duo Version for Electric Guitar and Accordion
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Score title
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Knights of the Strange: Duo Version for Electric Guitar and Accordion
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Composer
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Chaya Czernowin
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Program note
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Knights of the Strange is a piece of music poetry, where a few words highlight the speculative/poetic connections between dreams, reality and reflection. The duo version is like an independent plant which comes from another climate inside the jungle of the tutti version. Both versions are dedicated to my son Ko, as he leaves home for college. The title of the piece is taken from a book Ko created when he was four. The piece also includes some spoken phrases which are very mundane exchanges at home.
It is a piece where there is a real braiding between the instruments. It is a very close look at the smallest mechanisms of impulse and reaction and at how impulse and reaction, when faced with some random element, can take quite a surprising turn into an unexpected territory.
Chaya Czernowin