The 16-minute work for string orchestra starts out with meowing strings that breaks off into every kind of sound that can be made with string instruments, from eerie harmonics to coarse scraping, scratching and sharp pizzicatos.
The work interleaves nine pieces for string quartet with nine settings of the poetry of Paul Celan.
The flexible, 140-seat auditorium and presentation area, will feature a puppet bridge for string puppet operators to work from and a floor trench for rod puppet operation.
Magnets work to either increase of decrease the string's motion, bringing out vibrational modes that have always been in-play on acoustic instruments, but have never been offered the power needed to make 'em sing.
All of these finger-friendly surfaces work alongside two pairs of electromagnetic pickup channels per string to wrangle the 96 simultaneous harmonics.
How inconvenient, then, to read in last week's FT that "Britain is suffering from a string of myths about the world of work".
Just ask yourself, if you were a 21-year-old Stanford graduate with the world on a string, which company would you want to work for?
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In the interview he acknowledged that a string of ministerial resignations, including that of the former Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, caused "a serious ruction".
The final string quartet piece, Todesfuge-Frieze 4, encapsulates the expressive world of the whole work.
Through a string of futball references and lovely Spanish cliches, Alvarez clearly had a message: If you work hard and are passionate about your work during this difficult and transitional stage in the development of games, you will make a good product and survive.
Now "stripped of set, stories and the one-minute time frame" and performed to Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor ("Death and the Maiden"), the reconstituted work here augmented by an extraneous smoke bomb and some pointless tossing around of apples is more of the same kind of group and individual activity now familiar from Mr. Jones.
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