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- Emily Howard
Ada sketches (2011)
(for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet and percussion)- Peters Edition Limited (World)
Commissioned by Soundings at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London.
A short dramatic scena for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble that imagines an inner world of mathematician Ada Lovelace.
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- Mezzo-soprano
- 7 min
- Laura Tunbridge
- English
Programme Note
In this short dramatic scena, Lovelace explores a mathematical equation as solved by Charles Babbage's hypothetical 1842 Analytical Engine, a prototype for the world's first computer. As she works, a musical solution to the equation gains a life of its own, causing Lovelace to contemplate her own position in history.
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“Howard's Ada sketches ... one of a number of very fine pieces ... pictures Ada Lovelace dreaming that her (and Babbage's) analytical engine – an early computer – produced notes instead of numbers. Typical of Howard in its minute theatricality, it is a gentle affair, with sparse, dreamy textures for flute and clarinet and a vocal line, sung by Loré Lixenberg, that moves from speech to song and prose to verse (and back again). The percussion part, devised by Adam Clifford, deploys flower pots and a torn cymbal to intriguing effect.”
Discography
Platypus: Selected Works Vol.III
- Labelcol legno
- Catalogue NumberWWE20419
- ConductorŠimon Voseček
- EnsemblePlatypus Ensemble
- Released2013
