- Title
- Salvador Allende
- Year
- 1983
- Instrumentation
- for String Quartet, Clarinet and Percussion.
- Notes
- Commissioned by Musica Insieme of Cremona.
The instrumental parts are derived from a computer analysis of the spoken name of the title. The instruments begin by imitating and expanding the component sounds of the spoken name, which are gradually compressed until they become recognizable as such, and ultimately the words are taken up by the players as actual speech.
