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Bruno Guastalla - SET ENDS
Composition for quartet played by the Set Ensemble
duration: 14:40
Recorded at Oxford Brookes University, September 2011
Bruno Guastalla has been a violin and cello maker/restorer for the past thirty five years, as well as a practising musician. Questions around perception, language and shape-making come up a lot in his work. Bruno plays cello and has collaborated amongst others with Philipp Wachsmann, Dominic Lash and the dancer Macarena Ortuzar. He is a member of the SET ENSEMBLE .
'SET ENDS'
The title refers to the fact that in this piece the ends of musical gestures are fixed by time markers, not the beginnings. It was initially made for double-bass and cello, as part of a dance piece performed in Oxford. This version (recorded by Simon Reynell in 2011) is for quartet, and was played by members of SET ENSEMBLE: David Stent (guitar) Sarah Hughes (zither) Dominic Lash (doublebass) and Bruno Guastalla (cello).