PERSISTENCE [SHARESPACE VI] (2019-2022)
Cello and Computer Musician
9 March 2024
Peter Ko, cellist
Jacob Sundstrom, computer musician

PERSISTENCE: SHARESPACE VI (for solo cello computer musician, and spatialized sound) is a study in manifesting – and occasionally violating – a complex and demanding continuity of double-stops (spinning out a continuous two-part counterpoint). An interactive duo comprising a cellist and a computer musician (who manages various computer algorithms that manipulate the character of the performed sound, in addition to spatializing it). An alternative – an “other” -- space lurks behind the apparent tranquility of the respiratory surface continuity. There, the weightlessness of lightning fast articulation is the norm. On occasion, this other world is heard between fissures in the surface continuity, reminding the listener of an unimaginable rush of potential urgency that always lurks beneath the subtly evolving surface. Algorithmic enhancements also dimensionalize the soloist’s journey.

Image: Courtesy Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego.