The summer of 2018 was rather hot. The cities I visited that were normally a pleasant summer temperature were melting. Is this the sign of summers to come? Experiencing how excessive heat can lead to both mirages and a state of delirium, Urban Melt transports an ordinary, outdoor table tennis game in Park Palais Meran, Graz, to a crazier world on the other side of the mirage. The composition was created using high-resolution (Eigenmike®) recordings of an outdoor table-tennis game. The recordings were then spatially decomposed, or picked apart to isolate the sources in space, and this then allowed the surreal transformations upon which the work is built.
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from Heterotopia,
released March 4, 2022
Composed by Natasha Barrett
Supported by a grant from the Norwegian The Composers' Remuneration Fund.
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