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The Vulture

October 12, 2017

The Vulture

Composer: Vahid Jahandari

Year of Composition: 2016
Instrumentation: double bass and electronics
Type of Electronics: Fixed

Number of Channels: 2
Duration: 7:48
Video Component: None

Recording

The Vulture is inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, “The Vulture and the Little Girl,” taken by South African photojournalist Kevin Carter. The photograph, in which a vulture stands in the dirt behind an emaciated child, apparently waiting for it to die, hauntingly captures the desperation and misery of the famine that hit the horn of Africa in 1993.

All the sounds used in “The Vulture” were derived from a double bass. At certain points during the piece, the goal has been to distance the sound from the actual timbre of the double bass, and to engage the imagination of the listeners in considering different possible sources for the sounds.

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