Hi! Here's a new guitar duo, which I composed this spring for a guitar festival held annually in Helsinki, Finland. Unfortunately the festival was postponed due to the covid-situation but luckily I was able to get the guitarists to perform the piece for a recording. In this composition I wanted to explore the possibilities of natural harmonics, and hence a major part of the composition is composed using only them. Using natural harmonics, I was able to create large, heavily sustained chords and melodic passages that wouldn't otherwise be possible, or would be very hard to perform on the guitar. On the parts where I didn't use them, I continued the idea of sustaining as much notes as possible but with normally produced notes. Occasionally I drifted away from this kind of sound altogether for more stormy/active passages. I hope you like it!
The piece is performed by Kasperi Leponiemi & Elias Lehti.
The piece is performed by Kasperi Leponiemi & Elias Lehti.