First Punch
For contrabass and CD playback
Commissioned by Yann Dubost
Duration: 7'30"
Commissioned by Yann Dubost
Duration: 7'30"
RECORDING by Yann Dubost
PERUSAL SCORE
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PROGRAM NOTE
The first punch is everything. It represents a conclusion of thought – an end to analyzing personal motivation, estimating an opponent's strengths and weaknesses, playing out scenarios of strategies and positions, surveying surroundings, calculating odds of winning – ultimately putting into action a series of electronic impulses sent from the brain to a few thousand muscle fibers. That's a lot that happens in a few seconds. Cinematographers reflect an awareness of the hyper-mental and hyper-physical state required to survive in a fight by using effects like replay, slow motion, freeze, and flashback to ''stretch'' time. These effects allow film makers to portray the multitude of thoughts and events that happen in a two second window over the course of a several minute scene. This composition, First Punch, is a musical depiction of the hyper-mental and hyper-physical state of a fighter. Using similar techniques to those mentioned above, this piece ''stretches'' time to reflect the many (and varied) thoughts and emotions that a fighter experiences in the last few seconds before the first punch is thrown.
The first punch is everything. It represents a conclusion of thought – an end to analyzing personal motivation, estimating an opponent's strengths and weaknesses, playing out scenarios of strategies and positions, surveying surroundings, calculating odds of winning – ultimately putting into action a series of electronic impulses sent from the brain to a few thousand muscle fibers. That's a lot that happens in a few seconds. Cinematographers reflect an awareness of the hyper-mental and hyper-physical state required to survive in a fight by using effects like replay, slow motion, freeze, and flashback to ''stretch'' time. These effects allow film makers to portray the multitude of thoughts and events that happen in a two second window over the course of a several minute scene. This composition, First Punch, is a musical depiction of the hyper-mental and hyper-physical state of a fighter. Using similar techniques to those mentioned above, this piece ''stretches'' time to reflect the many (and varied) thoughts and emotions that a fighter experiences in the last few seconds before the first punch is thrown.
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