Simon Steen Andersen: Double Up (w, score) (2010)

Simon SteenAndersen (1976) Double Up, for sampler and small orchestra (2010) Radio Kammerphilharmonie Hilversum Peter Eötvös, conductor World Première, 17 October 2010, Donaueschinger Musiktage 10 Doubling up is a risky strategy, but it can yield large returns Double Up is both a term for a risky but potentially powerful investment, gambling strategy on the stock market or in the casino, and it is, of course, the term for what you get during happy hour in a bar. In this piece the term is meant to cover a similar range: From the drunken and sloppy but deeply felt singalong to the more musical power of unison and the potentially rewarding effect of opening up something familiar for reinterpretation and reexperience by distorting or emphasizing its different elements or by presenting it in a new context. The form is simply two halves exploring two types of linearity with the same material: The linearity