Works

Smith Quartet

Instrumentation (detailed)

Strings (plucked / bowed)	2 Violin, Viola, Cello, 4 Violin [resonant, suspended]
Electronic / Electroacoustic	Live Electronics

Performer(s)

This work is part of a series of pieces that explore the notion of prothesis in relation to the interface between acoustic instruments and electronic sounds. The quartet's resonant materials are derived from four old violins (thank you to Tom Davis for sourcing these!). Resonant analysis from each violin body were used to create pitch and harmonic structures which are explored throughout the piece in an attempt to address the specificity of these instruments' bodies and their resonant potentials. The four suspended violins act as loudspeakers for the sounding of the work's electronic part. The relation between the quartet and the four prosthetic violins ranges from ambiguity to contradiction by both extending and reacting against the material played by the quartet. 

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Shadow Quartet	Performance	2008/Mar/13	MMP / Circuits, Berliner Festspiele - Maerzmusik	Universität der Künste - Konzertsaal Bundesallee	Berlin	Germany	Smith Quartet Miso Studio	Notes
Shadow Quartet	Performance	2007/Apr/24		Project Arts Centre	Dublin	Ireland	Smith Quartet	Notes
Shadow Quartet	Performance	2008/Sep/27	Miso Music Portugal / Música Viva Festival 2008	Belém Cultural Centre - Luís de Freitas Branco Room	Lisbon	Portugal	Smith Quartet: Ian Humphries (violin), Darragh Morgan (violin), Nick Pendlebury (viola), Deirdre Cooper (cello)	Notes
Shadow Quartet	Premiere	2007/Apr/21	Sonorities Festival	SARC	Belfast	United Kingdom	Smith Quartet	Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Smith Quartet music for string quartet & electronics Pedro Rebelo / Carlos Caires Miguel Azguime / Pedro Amaral  Shadow Quartet		shadow quartet Pedro Rebelo	Miso Records	2011
	Radio programmes	Arte Eletroacústica: Obras Portuguesas - Música de Câmara e Electrónica	Miguel Azguime	shadow quartet Pedro Rebelo		2012
	Scores	Pedro Rebelo / Shadow Quartet  Shadow Quartet		shadow quartet Pedro Rebelo	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2011 2007