Filter (1992 & 2017)
by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)

Instrumentation: Solo Violin
Length: 4.5 mins

DBR’s most popular solo violin work, in two versions

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A signature example of extended violin techniques, this piece can be played acoustically, or amplified, with or without effects. PDF sheet music will be delivered a few minutes after making payment.

COMPOSER’S NOTE:
I wrote Filter in the summer of 1992 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, at a small music and dance festival. I had been playing a version of the work for years before, but decided it was time to notate it for myself and others. The work then became the first movement of my first violin concerto, Voodoo Violin Concerto, composed in 2002. It’s the first time I notated one of my many extended techniques for the violin, where “filtering” is moving the violin bow as close to, and as far away from, the bridge as possible, creating an electronic-sounding filtering effect. In 2017, the acclaimed violinist Rachel Barton Pine, asked me to created a new introduction and closing to the work, and that version was published  for the first time in 2024. - DBR

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