Karim Al-Zand: Music: Strange Machines (String Quartet No. 4)


Strange Machines (String Quartet No. 4)

Wintergatan Marble Machine
Martin Molin (www. wintergatan.net)
Photo: Samuel Westergren (www.wepix.se)

Strange Machines imagines three quirky musical automata. In Alberti Machine we encounter a steam-punk music box, its buttons, levers and dials adjusting a familiar accompanimental pattern until the machine breaks. Bach meets Rube in Goldberg Machine, a contraption that careens between variations in a musical chain reaction. Mannheim Machine is a cliché-bot, an unhinged device that furiously spits out distorted musical tropes from the dawn of the symphony.

Strange Machines was written for the Barlourdet Quartet with support from a Chamber Music America Commissioning Grant.

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DATE
2022

DURATION
12 minutes

INSTRUMENTATION
2 violins, viola, cello

COMMISSION
Chamber Music America

PREMIÈRE
2022–2023 season

MOVEMENTS
1. Alberti Machine
2. Goldberg Machine
3. Mannheim Machine


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