Double Up

(2010)

Composer Simon Steen-Andersen

Instrumentation 2.2.2.2/2.2.2.0/3 perc/arpa/sampler/archi

Category Orchestra

Publication year 2010

Catalogue no. B.0602

Duration 18 minutes

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Double Up is both a term for a risky, but potentially powerful investment/gambling strategy on the stock market or in the casino, and it is, of course, the term for what you get during happy hour in a bar. In this piece the term is meant to cover a similar range: From the drunken and sloppy, but deeply felt sing-along, to the more musical ‘power of unison’ and the potentially rewarding effect of opening up something for reinterpretation and re-experience by distorting or emphasizing its different elements or by presenting it in a new context. The form is simply two halves exploring two types of linearity with the same material: The linearity of a trivial narrative and the linearity of the inherent musical qualities in the very same sounding snapshots.

Review The Guardian 15.12.2011 (UK)
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Review Limelight Magazine 09.10.2014 (UK)

Assets

The sample material for Double Up is available for download in the form of an Ableton Live Set.

The sample set requires the program Ableton Live in order to be run. It can be downloaded from the Ableton website. (The trial version is fully functional for 90 days. Ableton Live can however also be run in Demo Mode. Live is fully functional in Demo mode with the exception that saving and exporting are disabled. Since these functions are not required Demo Mode will not affect running the supplied set in any way.)

Once the Ableton Live program is installed and the Double Up Live Set downloaded from this website, double click the .alp file or drag it onto the main Ableton window to install it. (You will be asked for a location in which you would like the DoubleUpSamplerSetup1 Project folder to be placed.)

Once installed open the project folder and double click on the DoubleUpSamplerSetup5.5-3-2-Radio.als file in order to open it. Requires Ableton Live 9 or later.

Download Ableton Live set

N.B. For all performances of this work, it is necessary to be in direct contact with the composer. Simon Steen-Andersen must be consulted in connection with the sound set-up and a live technician must be available to take care of the sound mix.

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