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Re:Connect

A Site-Specific Guided Improvisation

Written for Ensemble Qualia

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Year: 2022

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Duration: around an hour

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Re-Connect is designed as a musical performance based on and inspired by the doctrines of the World Soundscape Project. The aim of the project is to Re-Connect the listener with their natural surroundings in a very particular manner: by forcing them to listen. By placing the performers

distanced apart around the lake, the sonic attributes of the terrain are amplified since not only the reflection of the lake is at play, but the distance between the performers and the listener makes it inevitable for the sounds to be percieved as themselves. What the listener listens to, then, is the lake itself; the music is the medium.

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INSTRUMENTATION

Any number of players is suitable. Performers does not have to be playing any particular instruments. They might use any kind of objects that make sound and use any number of different objects per individual.

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PLACEMENTS/SETUP

Performers are to position around the lake except for the main campus side within more or less equal distances to one another. The main campus side of the lake should be empty in order to maintain a homogenious soundscape for the listeners. Although listeners are free to walk to the other side of the lake. Performers should be as close to the water as possible in order to use the reflection of the lake to its full potential.

Excerpts from three different moments from the performance.​

Around the beginning

00:00 / 01:30

The middle

00:00 / 02:14

Towards the end

00:00 / 01:52

© 2025 by Deniz Aslan

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