| Thanks for bringing this piece to our attention. For anyone interested, here is a little snippet I found on it:
"Snatches of a Conversation
The playful sounds of language are explored in Snatches of a Conversation, a theatrical, jazz-influenced exchange between a solo trumpet and a speaker whispering percussive fragments of words.
This piece was originally commissioned by the Europäischer Musikmonat 2001 in Basel and is the first piece written for double bell trumpet, a trumpet created by trumpeter Marco Blaauw.
Blaauw designed the modified trumpet together with an instrument maker in 2000 in order to be able to switch more quickly between a muted trumpet and an open trumpet. An extra valve was added to swap between the two bells and allows for a large scale of colours that Snatches attempts to explore.
Blaauw received a phone call from Eötvös wanting to create a new piece for trumpet and ensemble on the very same day Blaauw put his new trumpet idea into works. During this conversation, Blaauw shared his ideas for making the double bell trumpet and out of it came the first composition for the new instrument.
Snatches of a Conversation also features a 'noise-maker', a speaker whispering a collection of words, chosen specifically for their plethora of consonants into a mike which then is transformed electronically into what Eötvös describes as a "part eavesdropping, part percussion instrument". The words themselves are nonsensical or have no meaning and were chosen for their specific syllabic and consonant qualities imitating percussion, sounding like a brush on a hi-hat in the jazz style." |