Evolve

Soaring above a deep and brooding landscape.

(5-string electric viola and Electronic soundscape).
Total duration ca. 8 minutes (2006)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Requested in 2006 by violist Martha Mooke.
One movement work. 4 pages, 8.5" x 11".

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Vista

(Violin and Electronic soundscape).
Total duration ca. 8 minutes (2005)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Commissioned in 2005 by violinist Antonio D'Andrea.
One movement work. 4 pages, 8.5" x 11".

Audio clip performed by Antonio D'Andrea.

"Alex Shapiro's electronically enhanced 'Vista' is a spherical sound universe in whose mysterious ambience the violin conjures up the spirits of nature - meditative and full of reverence."

— Monika Köhler, Heilbronner Stimme, September 2007

Evolve explores the complete range of the 5-string electric viola with its amplified, soaring heights, and takes a look at an equally broad expanse of dark and hidden emotions.