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Spinefold; opinions, is a work that musicalises familiar quotidian objects. The piece is as much about the surprisingly diverse cache of acoustic potential in amplified books as it is about the connotative power of the objects and their multiplicities of meanings. As pages rustle, spines squeak, and covers slam, the historical weight of these deliverers of thought may be contemplated. However, divorced from their proper function, the books are also robbed of their greatest power - transported to the significantly more abstract medium of music, the piece is “at a loss for words” in an expression of the inexpressible.This idea of expression is confounded and re-constructed through the score as well: neither words nor conventional musical notation are adequate to describe the performance gestures in the piece, so a novel system of graphic notation bridges the media: the performers must learn to read again in order to ‘unread’ the books.?Spinefold; opinions, was premiered by Architek Percussion. J. O'Callaghan

Spinefold; opinions, est une oeuvre qui transpose la familiarité des objets du quotidien dans le domaine musical. La pièce explore autant le potentiel acoustique caché de livres amplifiés que le pouvoir de la connotation des objets et la multiplicité de leur significations. Tandis que les pages bruissent, que les reliures grincent et que les couvertures claquent, on en vient à contempler le poids historique de ces porteurs de la pensée. ?Cependant, séparés de leur fonction propre, ces livres sont également privés de leur plus grande puissance – transposés dans le médium forcément plus abstrait de la musique, la pièce est « à cours de mots », tentant d’exprimer l’inexprimable.?Spinefold; opinions, a été créé par Architek Percussion. J. O'Callaghan