Isostasie (CD) Red Snow (Microclimate II)
Red Snow (Microclimate II)
Natasha Barrett
- Year of composition: 1998, 2001
- Duration: 15:39
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISWC: T0006088501
Stereo
ISRC CAD500214780
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
“Red snow” is snow coloured rose to blood red by a growth of algae or diatoms.
I moved to Norway in the winter, and the climate dramatically contrasted that of my home country England. Leaving behind everything I knew, I felt increasingly aware of the environment: the variety of snow spiralling in the wind; intricate details of vegetation enhanced by crystal formations; the soft sun and bright landscape; footprints suggesting their own scenario… and the potential color lying dormant.
Microclimate II: Red Snow is the second work in a series entitled Microclimate where each work is structurally balanced, not in a symmetrical sense, but through the ‘life’ of one articulation resulting in a subsequent and counterbalancing reaction. I have attempted to concentrate the beauty and violence of a natural landscape into the ‘microclimate’ of the work — forming a new ‘organisational space’ yet reflecting, in acoustic form, the natural world and source inspiration.
Microclimate II: Red Snow was realized in 1998 at Notam (Norsk nettverk for Teknologi, Akustikk og Musikk / Norwegian network for Technology, Acoustics and Music) in Oslo (Norway) and premiered on May 26, 1999 during the Music Factory Contemporary Music Festival in Bergen (Norway).
Premiere
- May 26, 1999, Concert, Bergen (Norway)