SnowTalking

SnowTalking is a 4-channel acousmatic piece, existing solely as digital recording. It was conceived as a free-standing relation to the piece SnowTalk, commissioned by Chaconne Brass, UK for brass quintet and pre-recorded electroacoustic sound (2006). The electroacoustic sound for both pieces includes a text written and performed by Hazel Smith, and sampled brass sounds by Chaconne, together with synthesized brass sound. All these sounds, other than the text, are also digitally processed to generate a complex sound texture which accompanies the live quintet performance of a notated score. In SnowTalking, the electronic sound is further developed to form a free standing and slightly longer work, but still with unprocessed text juxtaposed with digitally transformed brass sounds. SnowTalking was premiered in 2007, and has been presented in both hemispheres of the world.