Anthony Tan's Ways of Returning for amplified string quartet and electronics won the Canada Council 2021 Jules Léger Prize for Chamber Music. The work explores timbre through the historical abstraction of modal and tonal counterpoint. The first movement builds timbre through the imitation of acoustic strings by sampled and synthetically modelled strings. The second movement is a timbre fugue. The third movement explores the micro-synchronicity within a pulsation and its effect on timbral blend. Aesthetically, this work represents the mixing of the classical string quartet genre with Noise, and Dark Ambient genre signifiers.

At Espace Orange | Édifice Wilder

Those in Montreal will be able to hear the work in concert on Feb 23, performed by Quatuor Bozzini in partnership with Le Vivier. Read more