TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING
by Nick Didkovsky
Commissioned for Sirius String Quartet with a supporting grant from Meet the Composer

TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING, for string quartet and live electronics, reshapes the sound of the quartet with the resonances of the mouths of the players. We use four Banshee Talkboxes which pipe the sound of each stringed instrument up through a plastic tube and into each player's mouth, where it is vowelized and amplified.

Whitney Live, Composers' Showcase: Nick Didkovsky, Feb 15, 2008 		Nick Didkovsky and Sirius String Quartet in concert at ISSUE Project Room, Jan 6, 2007. Photo by Scott Friedlander
Nick Didkovsky and Sirius String Quartet in concert at ISSUE Project Room, Jan 6, 2007.
L to R: Gregor Huebner, Rachel Golub, Dave Eggar, Ron Lawrence, Nick Didkovsky.
Photo by Scott Friedlander

  • New CD on Pogus
  • Program notes
  • Play with the Virtual Talkbox which was used to model the composition (requires JSyn plugin)
  • See and hear the score using JMSL+JScore+JSyn. Only recommended for FAST internet connections (many bowed string samples are downloaded) and fast processors (700 MHz or faster). Also requires JSyn plugin
  • Hear a live performance (mp3) recorded Dec 17, 2002 at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC
  • Hear a shorter excerpt (mp3) recorded Dec 17, 2002 at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC
    Past Performances:
    Whitney Museum of American Art, Feb 15, 2008
Whitney Live, Composers' Showcase: Nick Didkovsky 

ISSUE Project Room, Jan 6, 2007
Nick Didkovsky and Sirius String Quartet CD release concert

Sirius String Quartet, perform TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING
Thursday,April 10, 2002 at Roulette, NYC

Sirius String Quartet, premiering TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING
Pace University
Alliance for Downtown New York and Delta Present: The Lunch Box Series 2002
Wed, June 26, 2002, Pace University, 12 and 1pm

Sirius String Quartet, perform TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING
Knitting Factory Old Office
Nov 25, 2002, 8pm

Sirius String Quartet, perform TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING
Experimental Intermedia Foundation 224 Centre Street, NY
Dec 17, 2002, 8pm

    TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING was supported by a grant from Meet The Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program. Commissioning Music/USA is made possible with support from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and The Target Foundation. Thanks to DigiTech and Rocktron for their generous Artist Relations support.

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