Harmonic Constellations

Year
2016
Instrumentation
Violin, electronics, and sine tones
Category
Chamber / Orchestral

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Mari Kumura performing Harmonic Constellations
Mari Kumura performing Harmonic Constellations

“…lovely and hypnotic. Michael Harrison's Harmonic Constellations (2016) is the title track of the disc and the longest work on the program. It pairs the live violin with a prerecorded part of both violin tracks and sine-tones… The result, over its 20-plus minutes, is lovely and hypnotic.”

— Robert Carl , Fanfare
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“…Long, sustained pitches—combined with minimal vibrato and keenly accurate intonation—produced a pleasing minimalist drone, for an otherworldly excursion into the farthest reaches of the string universe.”

— Bruce Hodges , The Strad

“As Michael Harrison has pressed further into the map of his musical life, something magical has happened. The map is folding in on itself, with the seemingly distant now adjacent regions overlapping, simple lines becoming multi-dimensional.”

— David Dies , I Care If You Listen (cover story)