Ch’ien

Wishart, Betty

Duration

13m 00s

Composed

1998

Instrumentation

String Ensemble

Scoring

4 vn

Availability

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About the work

No two performances of this piece should ever sound the same. The performers have much freedom in selecting the exact duration of notes and are free to react to each other as an ensemble. Ch’ien was inspired by the I Ching.

Technical notes

Consists largely of notes of fluctuating pitch, improvisations from specified groups of notes, and other extended techniques.