Atata is a continuous piece of music for violin and piano that lasts 57 minutes. Written and produced by Chris Fitkin, Atata is divided into five sections solely for practical purposes.
Release date: 08.12.2023
Tracks:
1. Section 1 (10.34)
2. Section 2 (12.07)
3. Section 3 (9.54)
4. Section 4 (15.43)
5. Section 5 (8.25)
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Written and produced digitally in the UK by Chris Fitkin using a Vienna Symphonic Library Violin and Bösendorfer Piano.
Atata opens with mysterious, flute-like harmonics from the violin, and gentle droplets of chord from the piano. This reflective and floating quality, typical of some of the composer’s recent pieces, still characterises much of Atata.
But a darker note –with hints of the macabre, suggestions of buried tensions, and glimpses of blood – appears in parts of Atata. Obsession, foreboding and convulsiveness seem to creep into the tranquility: a tranquility that is both sparse and lush at the same time.
Atata has a narrative quality, but it’s the listener who needs to supply the story.
Atata is constructed from a palette containing all 12 notes of the chromatic scale in two groups of six (hexachords). The music moves between the two hexachords, but they never combine.
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