Work · 1991
Moving Navel
Moving Navel STR QUART (AKM)
Instant Composition for the Kronos Quartet, premiered together with “String Nr. 8” and “Obsession”.
- Authors
- Harry Pepl
- Genre
- string quartet
- Line-up
- string quartet (2 violins, viola, cello), three movements; Pepl played the quartet parts with MIDI guitar and string samples
- Commission
- Kronos Quartet (via Heimo Steps, gamsbART); whether the quartet formally commissioned the work or merely premiered it is not clear
- Premiere
- 3 December 1991, Orpheum Graz, Kronos Quartet (organiser gamsbART, Steirischer Herbst)
- Publisher
- Pepl Daniel Musikverlag (Fullmax Publishing)
- ISWC
- T0012789535
- AKM work number
- 1913121
- Sheet music
- Full score: Hand-notated score by Andreas Schreiber after Pepl's MIDI recording.
- Archive ID
- HP-W-0120
Pepl described the method like this: he freely improvised one voice, and the other three arose from reacting spontaneously to it; the result was printed out as a score, not corrected afterwards and presented to the players.
Listen to the recording
Moving Navel, world premiere by the Kronos Quartet
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The Kronos Quartet with David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Joan Jeanrenaud at the world premiere as part of the Steirischer Herbst.