Boids again - Stimmensatz Misato Mochizuki

Titel / Title: Boids again
Kurzbesetzung: 2Vl,Va,Vc
Besetzung / Instrumentation:Quartett
Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2019/2020
Dauer / Duration: 7'
Epoche: Musik (nach 1945) / Neue Musik (nach 2000)
Produkttyp / Product: Stimmensatz

Uraufführung: Osaka, International Chamber Music Competition, 12. Februar 2022, Auftrag des Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa Commission

Two years ago in Rome, I encountered a murmuration of starlings and I was amazed with its overwhelming beauty, changing shape as it moved. Moving of a fish school that you can watch in an aquarium, has the same beauty and the energy. According to the scientists, their fine movement in a flock is based on the following three simple rules: - steer to avoid crowding local flockmates - steer towards the average heading of local flockmates - steer to move towards the average position (center of mass) of local flockmates The word Boids refers to bird-like objects (bird-oids), representing the beauty of their movements in a flock which is a result of balancing out with each other, following the principle of least effort. I wonder if these rules can be applied to the way a string quartet is shaped. Boids again has been written as a sequel to the piece Boids (2017), a 4 minute study for string quartet in the frame of the Kronos Quartet's educational project 50 for the Future. (Misato Mochizuki)