A quartweet (or #quartweet) is a musical composition for string quartet of 140 notes or less (280 since 2017), reflecting the maximum number of characters in a Twitter message (a tweet).Signum Quartet Wants Your 'Quartweets': Bite-Sized Pieces of 140 Notes or Less. Website of WQXR, 2 October 2015, retrieved on 22 November 2016#Quartweets. Website of Cardiff University, 3 November 2016, retrieved on 22 November 2016"Copernicus", #Quartweet und Future Pitch. Website of Deutschlandfunk, 6 October 2015, retrieved on 22 November 2016
Project
The #quartweet project was initiated by Xandi van Dijk and launched by the Signum Quartet (previously BBC New Generation Artists) in 2015 together with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra.Classical Music: Princeton Symphony Orchestra participating in 'quartweet' project. Website of NJ.com, 12 August 2015, retrieved on 22 November 2016
Among the initial, prominent composers to sign onto the project were Derek Bermel, Sebastian Currier, Steven Mackey, Caroline Shaw and Sarah Kirkland Snider. The composer Matthijs van Dijk also contributed to launch the project, along with Bruno Mantovani and Konstantia Gourzi.
The quartet is also asking composers "of all ages and abilities" to submit their works under the hashtag "quartweet" on Twitter.Signum Quartet Wants Your 'Quartweets': Bite-Sized Pieces of 140 Notes or Less. Website of WQXR, 2 October 2015, retrieved on 22 November 2016 The project is a Social Media experiment that intends to put more music into the way we communicate online.
References
External links Project page on the Signum Quartet website "Twitter music performed by string quartet in Cardiff" on the BBC Wales website