Duration: ca. 12 min.
Finished Date: Oct 10, 2009
Program Notes:
This piece is inspired by the irony and sadness in the relationship between moth and fire - a moth tends to be attracted by the flame of fire in the darkness and eventually falls into the blaze. In this piece, the flute is intended to symbolize the moth and the computer the flame. The interactivity between the two are achieved by various real-time effects mainly including FFT freezer, spectral delay, granular delay, and reverse delay controlled by different algorithm based on the audio analysis of the flute performance. Different real-time effects and processed sound files of the flute are layered in various combinations to represent the image of the moth going in and out of the fire before its inevitable death in the fire.
PS: This piece was composed in 2007 by Chien-Wen Cheng and was revised in 2009 for WOCMAT concert in Taiwan. In this version, both the flute part and the Max/MSP patch were modified. As for the Max/MSP patch, automatic note sustaining (looping) module was incorporated, and the random sound file triggering was removed in order to make the music more like what I expected. The performance was successful since the flutist is well-experienced in performing contemporary music.
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