I chose to discuss how Caroline Shaw’s Passacaglia piece exhibits characteristics from Edgard Varese’s piece even though the composers had different performance mediums.
Throughout Shaw’s piece, you can hear a few characteristics of e experimentation. Shaw’s piece does not use a lot of synthesizers and is not a dramatic as Varese’s Poeme Electronique. Shaw uses some electronic sounds and characteristics of experiments within her piece, but her main sound was the use of whispers, shouts, and cries to make her pieces unique. A few examples of experimentation in Shaw’s piece was in the beginning when the voices of the singer became louder and turn into cries. Shaw was experimenting with new vocals and trying to get them to sound different.
Throughout Shaw’s piece, you can hear a few characteristics of e experimentation. Shaw’s piece does not use a lot of synthesizers and is not a dramatic as Varese’s Poeme Electronique. Shaw uses some electronic sounds and characteristics of experiments within her piece, but her main sound was the use of whispers, shouts, and cries to make her pieces unique. A few examples of experimentation in Shaw’s piece was in the beginning when the voices of the singer became louder and turn into cries. Shaw was experimenting with new vocals and trying to get them to sound different.