Jukka Tiensuu. Daydreams. for guitar and electronics

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1 Jukka Tiensuu Daydreams for guitar and electronics 0

2 Copyright by the Composer All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be copied or reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the composer Distribution: Music Finland Music Library Urho Kekkosen katu C, th floor FI-0000 Helsinki Finland Helsinki, 07

3 Jukka Tiensuu: Daydreams (0) for guitar and electronics Electronics required: MAX/MSP program (mapatch available from the composer), MIDI-pedal to change progam, suitable microphones and P/A (stereo). Setup (the loudspeakers wide away from the guitarist, directed to the audience): LS Left (pedal) guitarist (mic) LS for guitar (if necessary for balance) LS Right (audience) Performance note Guitarist The guitar sound (projected from its own loudspeaker only) is slightly amplified (type "large hall") and reverberated throughout the piece. Close miking with a DPA 000 series or alike is recommended, but other high standard solutions such as L.R.Baggs M80 activ, magnetic soundhole pickupsystem are acceptable. The electronic sound (e.g. program ) and the delayed guitar (program ) should be at the same level as the (amplified) live guitar. The live guitar is heard only from the center loudspeaker, the stereo channels are panned etremely left and right. The loudspeakers are placed (sideways) as far of the player as reasonable, to create an illusion of three guitars (and to reduce the danger of feedback), but not disturbingly close to the audience. Tuning: a = 0 H. Tune to 0 H then to a perfect twelfth with it (=0 H). Tune, and to a perfect minor triad with, then to a perfect fourth with. (N.B. the resulting fourth - will be "unpleasantly" wide). Tempo: During program the tempo must be eactly 9 (used on the "tape" part b.-8). For other programs the player may choose slightly different tempi than indicated, but they would the delay values in the MAX patch would then have to be changed accordingly, and the player must keep the new tempo steady for eact synchroniation with the delayed sounds. Notation Glissandi (with slide b. 8-99) start immediately and go on for the full length of the note (no "portamento"). Position the slide a little above/below the required starting pitch and start moving it a little bit before you pluck. I.e. always pluck while already sliding. Ecessively wide, slowish vibrato. Traditional vibrato on long notes and epressive passages are recommended, ecept on the last (microtonal) section of the piece, where no vibrato should be used. a quarter-tone sharp and flat respectively. At the end section of the piece these are mainly reminders for pitches played on the (de-tuned) and. On the other strings, quarter-tones are performed by stretching the string. All accidentals apply till the end of the bar (although they are occasionally repeated for clarity and to facilitate reading) and any accidental, including a micro-tonal one, cancels the previous one.. staccati are relative, i.e. somewhat longer on longer note values. _ tenuto sign is used mainly to remind that the duration of the note in question is played to its full value. Let strings vibrate as long as possible. is cancelled by ord. or a written pause or caesura (, ). Most harmonics are on open strings. The string and fret position are given, but the resulting pitch - thus being redundant - is not. It is recommended to play the harmonics sul pont. whenever convenient.

4 ~0 Passionately Daydreams for Guitar and electronics Jukka Tiensuu 0 cresc. ord. 7 () ord. ~ 9 Nostalgically "tape" Left: "tape" Right: 7 8 (ord.) (ord.) (m) 89 97

5 0 8 ~ 80 subito 0 take slide (ord.) ~ 80 Longing 8 Slide gliss. sempre cantabile program on repeat only (Delays à / L - db, II -9 db) 7 8va Loco 8va 8 (Delays OFF, add Rev) Loco più (slide pos.: I - - V) () 9 ( rall.) put slide away ord. (less rev.) () più

6 0 ~0 Whimsically più appassionato 0 (m) (Delays à /) secc 8 (stretch) (stretch) ~0 Gallantly dim. u () 9 Eitedly robusto () 7 simile

7 00 (strong accents) Loco V 7 ~ 0 subito p. a p. rall al 0 V (Delays OFF) (more REV) V IV VI X Enigmatically 8 (with tuning) ( ) V () 7 V 7 ( ) V V ( ) ( ) V ( ) ( ) ( IV V ) ~ 0 Kindly IX I XIV 7 (sample) 8 XIX 8 (slide) () ( )