Branches by Peter Child

Ludo Sounds on Entrée Radio

'Branches' is a suite for recorders—tenor, alto, soprano, and sopranino—in five short movements. It was composed for the opening of Lina Viste Grønli’s exhibition 'Nye skulpturer' at Entrée, and the music responds to the work in that show: The sculptures are assemblages of branches and chewing gum that resemble wooden flutes, hence the recorders. In addition, the opening notes in the first movement are based upon the word ‘branch’ (in which, happily, the name ‘Bach’ is nested), and almost all of the pitch material in the rest of the piece is derived—branches out—from this opening figure. /Peter Child Peter Child is a composer and Professor of Music at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The piece is performed by Patricia Michlits. Recorded by Arve Stigen/Duper Studio.