Work
Erasure
for amplified string quartet
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About
“If women are invisible, then it doesn't really matter how important they are, because in the public consciousness they don't exist.”
— Dr Amanda Foreman, Historian
— AMPLIFICATION —
The piece incorporates some spoken elements, so the violins and viola should be amplified with pickups that will amplify both the instrument and the performer's voice. The cello should have a pickup or microphone, and the cellist should have a second, separate microphone for their spoken part.
Text note
Text by Gemma Peacocke
Performance history
26 Sep 2017: Performed by JACK Quartet at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, USA
11 Mar 2018: Terroir New Music (string quartet) | mothertongue concert featuring Kinds of Kings | Cavu, Tampa, FL
29 Sep 2018: Performed by Desdemona (string quartet), Unruly Sounds, Hinds Plaza, Princeton NJ, USA
15 Oct 2018: Performed by Desdemona (string quartet), Kinds of Kings Workshop at Metropolis, New York NY, USA
17 Oct 2018: Performed by Desdemona (string quartet) at Kinds of Strings, Spectrum, Brooklyn NY, USA
06 Dec 2018: Performed by ZAFA Collective, String quartets by Kinds of Kings, University of Chicago IL, USA
17 Jan 2019: Performed by Bergamot Quartet at George Peabody Library, Baltimore, USA
24 Nov 2019: Performed by ZAFA Collective, Constellation, Chicago, IL, USA
18 Jan 2020: Performed by 5th Wave Collective at Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL, USA
13 Aug 2020: Performed by Playground Ensemble, Lost and Found (live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube)