On This Day: July 10, 2016
Set Sail for the Sun
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July 10, 2016: Betsy Bell Park, Staunton, VA
From an outdoor recording on July 10, 2016: Rachell Wong and Shuxiang Yang, violins; Stephanie Block, viola: and Bennie Fried, cello greet the dawn in Betsy Bell Wilderness Park in Staunton VA with a one-of-a-kind performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s experimental piece “Set Sail For the Sun,” which comes from his collection titled “From the Seven Days.”
There’s no written score to this piece – instead, the performer(s) have to rely on their collective intuition to realize a short text of instructions:
Play a tone for so long until you hear its individual vibrations hold the tone and listen to the tones of the others – to all of them together, not to individual ones- and slowly move your tone until you arrive at complete harmony and the whole sound turns to gold to pure, gently shimmering fire
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