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Eva Reiter/Wire Tapping the Machine

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Eva Reiter took sounds she recorded from a range of machines as a point of inspiration for a string quartet. The research collaboration addressed potential correlations between the original audio files and the finished quartet on the level of the sounding structure.

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Notes

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    Biographical introduction and texts from the composer translated from the German by Tamara Friebel.

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    Titles, as they are not wished by Reiter to be given as dual-translations, are available here as footnotes to assist those without knowledge of the German language. Alle Verbindungen gelten nur jetzt roughly expresses that “all relations apply just now”.

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    Translated from the French, see [2, p. 76].

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    Translated from the German, see [1, p. 85f].

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    Alle Verbindungen gelten nur jetzt roughly expresses that “all relations apply just now”.

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Reiter, E., Rutz, H.H., Nierhaus, G. (2015). Eva Reiter/Wire Tapping the Machine. In: Nierhaus, G. (eds) Patterns of Intuition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9561-6_4

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