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RIDING THE WILD OCEAN: HORATIU RADULESCU'S SUBCONSCIOUS WAVE IN THEORY, PERFORMANCE AND RECORDING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2021

Sam Cave
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Abstract

This article focuses on Radulescu's 1984 Subconscious Wave, for guitar and pre-recorded digital sound, a work that features on my 2019 solo CD recording Refracted Resonance, for Métier Records, alongside music by Tristan Murail, Christopher Fox, George Holloway and myself. The article places the work in the context of Radulescu's output, demonstrates how it displays the key aesthetic concepts that drive his music and shares my insights into the technical and interpretive aspects of preparing the piece for performance and recording. The article has been adapted from a lecture-recital given at the 2021 edition of the 21st Century Guitar Conference, which was hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), Portugal in March 2021.

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Tempo , Volume 76 , Issue 299 , January 2022 , pp. 30 - 43
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An updated version of this article was published in January 2022, all of the corrections were minor typographical changes.

References

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2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Ibid.

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6 Ibid.

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8 Horatiu Radulescu, Streichquartett No. 4 Opus 33. Arditti String Quartet. 2007, Edition RZ, RZ 4002.

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11 In these descriptions Radulescu uses ‘Pz’ to denote plucking.

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13 Sam Cave, Refracted Resonance. 2019, Métier, MSV 28586.

14 Radulescu, Sound Plasma.