Daniel D'Adamo: Quatuor n°2: String Quartet

“Quatuor n°2” was first performed by the Tana string quartet on April 14, 2013, at Radio France, Paris. “I conceived a piece whose principal subject was going to consist in the description of a minuscule sonic element. The description of this tiny initial material would be so precise, so detailed that, deployed on a much larger scale than its original one, it would occupy the entire duration of the piece. At that point, I just had to choose a sound model as the starting point of the piece, the sound that would best characterize the string instruments themselves: the noisy sound produced by the bow barely coming in contact with one of the strings, getting ready to acquire speed, weight, acceleration, and producing a full sound of a violin, a viola or a cello…” Daniel D’Adamo