Raindrop Army - Guitar Orchestra and Electronics

I wanted to capture the resonances of many guitars playing together. In this piece the players repeat boxed

arpeggio passages while following a counter that tells them when to move from one pattern to the next. Each player plays their material at their own pace, which ends up creating pretty chaotic textures when many people play at the same time. To hear what this would sound like I recorded all the parts, and while I have done this kind of writing before there was something about the sound of all these classical guitars that immediately gave me the impression of an army of raindrops crashing down to earth.

- Gulli Björnsson