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"In 1998, Martijn Padding wrote Give Me One More Night for the Dutch-American cellist Frances-Marie Uitti. She developed a unique technique by using two bows in one hand (one above and one below the strings) to play all four strings of the cello simultaneously. Give me one more night is based on this technique. The musical discourse consists purely of flageolet harmonies.
In 2020, I reimagined the piece by playing it with a single bow and singing the missing notes. It became a duet of voice and cello. Looking for the resonance of natural flageolets and aligning them with my voice transformed this piece for me into a kind of meditative ritual of listening to what hides in the spaces between the notes, between inhaling and exhaling my breath. It has truly been a gift to collaborate with Martijn Padding on this new version."
— Maya Fridman
