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| secret device | |
| Date Completed: | November 23, 2000 |
| Duration: | about 5 minutes |
| Instrumentation: | viola |
| First Performance: | was given by the composer on July 6, 2008, in Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on the University of Pittsburgh campus |
| Comments: | the score is available at newmusicshelf |
| Program Notes: | secret device is written for David Cerutti between November 10th and 23rd, 2000 as a birthday present. Configured in two teleports, it is registered with the Ohio entelechron network (which 'provides continuous service in all dimensions'). The opening statement of teleport a presents a vista of luxurious, troubled youth, which is gradually evened out through application of an harmonic filter. The mechanism of teleport b is unknown. The composer gave the first performance on July 6, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |