Shofar: A Wake Up Call

Eric Nicolaievsky

Shofar: A wake up Call

 

Si no te hubieras ido (cover- Marco Antonio Solís)

 

This piece was composed meditating on the structure of the sounds of the shofar assigning a numeric value to each of the mainstream sounds, 1, 3, 9, and then translating that idea to a main note on a chord and also to the friction between the pic and a metal guitar string “E” as a transition from the shofar to the guitar portion.

The way this melody is interpreted dwells in the idea that the instrument (briefly a Shofar and an electro acoustic guitar) are physical objects that create sound through vibration and resonance, exacerbating the vibrating qualities of the strings and stripping the performance of the artificial perfection reached in commercial music.

Eric Nicolaievsky

Eric Nicolaievsky

BCI 2016
Hometown: Chile