Instrumentation: Prepared Guitar

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(A)BIOTIC FORCES serves as a reflection on the land and waters of Gunaikurnai country (Gippsland, Victoria,
Australia), the place where I grew up. Abiotic Forces refer to abiotic factors — non-living components of an
ecosystem, such as rain, humidity, and temperature — which shape the environment and play an integral role
in this work. This is not a process of examining environmental data and using it as a basis for composition.
Instead, abiotic factors are directly responded to from the body. For example, if the temperature drops and
the fingers can't move quickly, the resulting music passage becomes slower. The musical material originated
from my solo contrabass guitar practice, which I transcribed and transposed. This transfer of material from
one body to another, one situational context to another, and one artistic context to another, represents a
process of expanding my solo bass practice to include performers, instrument augmentations, ideas, spaces,
and ensembles.