Ua hoi! by Adina Dumitrescu published on 2022-03-28T16:22:47Z Composed in 2011 for Eva Alkula and Jenni Vartiainen, who first performed it in Willa Mac, Tampere, on 27.11.2011. The piece is performed by the same musicians on this recording, and also on the cd released in 2015 by IMU-nkkoon musiikki. Composer Paola Livorsi about Ua hoi!: "In this work the two instruments are uned differently, one in the common diatonic scale, the other in microintervals carefully established by the composer. The piece begins "narrando" (telling a story): the second instrument is an odd brother of the first, repeating all what it says, but in a different scale. The work is built upon a portion of mostly diatonic scales. Mirrors and comparisons succeed themselves, bringing the two systems face to face. The game continues within the low register, till the scales become bichords of minor thirds (where the particularity of the tuning is yet more evident): suddenly the players' voices appear, pronouncing the syllables "ua ua" as a third sound added to the bichords; they evolve into "ba ba" and finally into "ua hoi!". The shouts are accompanied by clusters and percussive sounds on the soundboard of the instruments. Harmonic sounds lead to a calmer part, with resonant chords, marked "Cielo. Interludio". It is followed by Terra, where both instruments play fast glissandi up and down. Then restarts the confrontation in thirds, to give place to the invention-like patterns of the first part. The piece ends on whole tones and tritones, which put in evidence the difference of the tuning systems. The piece is very playful and the unconventional use of the voice is well integrated in its original sound world." Genre Classical