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About the title:

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair (Chinese proverb).

About the harmony:

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment… (Eliel Saarinen).

About the form:

Things appear in an extended and multiplied sense, often seemingly cocntradicting the rational experience of yesterday (Paul Klee).

About the computers:

One object suggests that there is another lurking behind it (Rene Magritte).

Fragile is a comission by Uusinta chamber ensemble with the support of Sibelius Foundation.

© Sami Klemola

Instrumentation

fl, cl, pno, vln, vla, vlc, live electr

Category

Electro-acoustic Works

Premiere

Uusinta Chamber Ensemble, Sami Klemola, electronics, International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen (Denmark), August 29, 2007; Fp in Finland: Uusinta Chamber Ensemble, Marko Myöhänen & Sami Klemola, electronics, Helsinki (Finland), December 4, 2007

Commisioned by / dedications

Commissioned by Uusinta with support from Sibelius Foundation

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Archive number

MF20370

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