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Mapping

Monty Adkins

Mapping has been performed in Arras, Birmingham, Crest, London, Montréal and Vienna…

Mapping depicts the slow evolution of an imagined landscape. It leads the listener through unknown territories, arriving at landing points from time to time by means of transformed sounds originating from the real world, either concrete or musical. Over and over the work plays with the idea of starting-out, either musically (with quotations from early Schaeffer and some of my own early piano music) or concretely (children learning a new game or learning to ride a bike). The work unfolds structurally as material emerges and is incorporated into the musical landscape. New material is continually being added until the final quarter of the piece. Some of this material is transformed throughout the work, while other parts remain unchanged, serving as points of reference as the piece evolves.

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Mapping was realized in 1995 in the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the University of Birmingham (UK) and revised in 1997 in the studios of University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and of EMS (Stockholm, Sweden). It was premiered on May 29, 1995 at the Artothek (Vienna, Austria). The work was awarded the 1st prize at the Hungarian Radio’s EAR’95 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music (Budapest, Hungary, 1995) and was a finalist at the 5th Prix international Noroit-Léonce Petitot (Arras, France, 1998) and at the 26th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art Competition (France, 1999).

Premiere

  • May 29, 1995, Concert, Artothek — MUSA, Vienna (Austria)

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Mapping (1995, 97), 14:19
Monty Adkins
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