HOKETAS by Arturas Bumšteinas
This composition features the recording of 6 year old child's hiccup.
The title originates from the French word hoquet (in Old French also hocquet, hoket, or ocquet) meaning "sudden interruption" or a "hiccup"). It refers to the involuntary act of hiccuping as well as to the medieval choral technique of the same name. In the practice of hocket, a single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
This composition was premiered as sound installation together with Kala Sound System during a Transformations festival in a historical Petrašiūnai Power Plant, 2025/08. Two midi-triggered disklaviers were added later in the studio.
