In Mahler’s instrumentation of Das Lied Von der Erde (1908/09), he mentions a mandolin. However, even though the piece has six movements, nearly sixty minutes of duration, Mahler only uses the mandolin on last movement, and not even for the entire of it, only in the final section. In Carlos Caires’ Instante (2011) for pre recorded electronics and orchestra, he just uses the electronics at the beginning of the piece, triggering a sort of energy that will be transmitted to the orchestra, making the rest of the composition entirely orchestral. In the instrumentation of my own song cycle, Tell me again the music of that Tale (2019) I mention the guitar, however there are sections, and entire movements, where the guitar does not intervene. To conclude the list of examples, in my own piece Redefinition… (2016) for percussion duo, brass ensemble and tape, the electronics are used as a prelude, in one single moment of the work.
After thinking about these, I realised that having new technologies in my work does not necessarily means that I need to be constantly using it. I am not making an electronic work, I am making music that nevertheless wants to gain from the timbral effect of having an acoustic and electronic sound combined.