About This Project

“Threadbare” is a piece for cello, dancers, and electronics. It involves a radical re-imagining of Eugène Ysaÿe’s “Sonata for Solo Cello, Op.28.” In Threadbare, the form, sonic material, digital processing and the original structure from the sonata informed each other in a process that fits the definition of ‘multiscale composition’ or “interplay between inductive and deductive thinking, from the specific to the general and from the general to the specific” (Roads, 2015). The piece is approximately 11 minutes long, starting with a brief improvised section followed by three contrasting sections. The premiere, with choreography by Kim Brooks Mata, took place on November 2018 in Charlottesville, Virginia (USA). This audio file presents only the audio portion of the performance, featuring improvisations by Kevin Davis in the Cello.