Breathing Forests

Extended Technique Demos

bar 1: all strings (you may use more horizontal bow motion than this as you get louder)

bar 263 (violin II outside, viola, cello, bass)
”slide bow up and down strings (perpendicular to normal motion) to produce an airy, pitchless sound”

bass version of above

starting bar 392 (violins 1) and 393 (violins 2, violas, cellos)
”slow, creaky bow, diagonal movements”
(it helps to do a strange bow hold)

starting bar 394 (bass)
"slow, creaky bow, diagonal movements”

bar 396 (cellos) + bar 400 (basses)
”bounce bow vertically”

bar 395 (cellos)
note: the score says to use 2 paperclips, 1 is also ok if you are unable to get the low sounds with 2

bar 397 (viola), bar 398 (violin 2), bar 400 (violin 1)
note: the viola part also includes tapping the instrument
note: for the pizzes, you may pluck any string(s)—you don’t have to pluck all of them every time as shown here