Netivot

Requirements:

• Computer running Max/MSP 6 or higher

• Audio Interface capable of at least 4 channels of audio

• Mixer with 4 input channels and 4-8 output channels

• 4 loudspeakers, 1-2 subwoofers

• 4 DPA clip-on instrument microphones with wireless transmitters (1 for each instrument in quartet)

• External reverberation unit

• 1-2 foot-switches assigned to Violin 2 and/or Viola or 'Cello for triggering

Each of the 169 cues is indicated by numbered boxes in the score.

See electronic support files for speaker arrangement, channel routing and other audio set-up instructions.

Netivot is Felder’s third string quartet commissioned by the Arditti String Quartet. The work is in three movements and is scored for quartet and 4 channels of electronic sounds with optional video in 4 channels by Elliot Caplan, Felder’s frequent collaborator with image. The work, as reflected in the titles of the first two individual movements, reflects an abstracted landscape rooted in a mystical praxis described in vivid detail by 13th century practitioner Abraham Abulafia in his extraordinary guidebooks. The last movement, a kind of chorale, is inspired by powerful events described in the Exodus….The unique harmonic language explored in this work projects adaptations of linguistic components. Formally, the work wanders, meanders, through different regions, and inhabits each in turn as each arises.

Netivot was commissioned by New Music USA, and private donors, and support for the realization of the electronics and video was provided by the Birge-Cary Chair in Music; production of the premieres was supported by the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music, both at the University at Buffalo. J.T. Rinker, and Olivier Pasquet assisted with the software design necessary to the realization of the electronics, and Matt Sargent mixed the resultant realizations of the 169 separate cues within the piece.