O.P.T.I.O.N.S. for Double Bass

by Daniel Barbiero

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PadraigC Very enjoyable and inspiring,
the release notes are informative and the album cover really caught my eye. Looking forward to hearing more of this performer
and the composers work!
Favorite track: O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 2a.

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1.	O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 2b 05:13	buy track
2.	O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 3a 03:40	buy track
3.	O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 2c 05:08	buy track
4.	O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 3f 03:58	buy track
5.	O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 1b 06:09	buy track
6.	O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 2a 07:33	buy track
7.	O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 1a 07:24	buy track
8.	O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 3e 03:46	buy track
9.	O.P.T.I.O.N.S. No 1c 06:04	buy track

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O.P.T.I.O.N.S.—which stands for Optional Parameter to Improvise Organized Nascent Sound—is a set of modular, largely indeterminate scores created at the beginning of this century by Los Angeles composer Bruce Friedman. The scores comprise graphic symbols or fragments of conventional musical notation that the performer can combine into larger units as he or she chooses. Macroformal parameters, such as the order which individual elements are arranged and played, repetitions or elisions of elements or combinations of elements, the overall duration of a performance and the like, are left open to the performer’s choices, as are microformal parameters such as the specific pitches, durations, articulations and dynamics of individual elements, as well as local phrasing. O.P.T.I.O.N.S. performances are, in effect, guided improvisations in which the scores limit, but do not overdetermine, any given realization.

O.P.T.I.O.N.S. Nos 1, 2 & 3 are sets of O.P.T.I.O.N.S. modules I’ve assembled into fixed scores on 11” by 17” sheets of paper. Although the placement of elements is fixed, their interpretation is not; they can be read in any order and with any amount of repetition or elision deemed appropriate to any given performance. My interpretations here, for solo double bass and prepared double bass, emphasize the scores’ modularity by using a phrase structure incorporating substantial silences to represent the joints between the modules. The relatively sparse textures and muted dynamics are intended to convey the visual aesthetic of the scores, which is of a particularly spacious and uncluttered elegance.

The O.P.T.I.O.N.S. scores have been part of my repertoire for over ten years now. Living and growing together as we have, we’ve forged a fruitful relationship between system and implementation and above all, between idea and act.

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released August 31, 2019

Daniel Barbiero: double bass; prepared double bass.
Recorded December 2018, Silver Spring MD.

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Daniel Barbiero Silver Spring, Maryland

Daniel Barbiero (1958, New Haven CT) is a double bassist improviser/composer with an interest in gestural, modular and sound- based music in acoustic and electro-acoustic environments. He frequently works with improvisational dancers and writes regularly on music and related subjects.
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