Etuda - Metal Percussion music, MPm 6 - my 53rd album.
presenting 3 works, one for Piano and 2 for Vibraphone. Three further stages on my Integral Percussion Series’
This album is dedicated to my Friend, the excellent Czech Composer, Filip Violista Holacký.
Klavierstuck no. 4 – Rh 223.
‘Klavierstuck’ [specifically after Stockhausen] is an investigation into a Compositionally narrow pianistic pallet, just a few selected notes, to build the entire piece with, augmented by a long sustaining echo, pilling up notes, such that a richness emerges.
Sonataphon for Vibraphone in two movements - Rh 227.
Also giving an enormously rich instrument a very restricted cellular pallet, but with the compositional freedom of endless repetitions, modifications and epicycles. Maximising the minimal.
Etuda - Rh 228.
Derived from the word Etude or Study. A charming little piece that sort of insisted on itself after I’d finished Sonataphon. It fits and frets its short way ‘home’. Etude is also the name of my collaboration with Joanna Leah Geldard, Choreographer, Artist [then also Dancer]. This resulting in the two Etuda albums ‘Internation W’ and ‘Percussion W’.
Beginning with my Four Klavierstuck, I explore, a minimalist Progress - an exploration of means and minima – invention with the least of means – the closest invention. Looking then to construct real music - with that least of means - in the way of a percussionist and his studio. That gives me a starting point for a whole season of works – wrapping itself around, but completely separate from the other big series in this Group – the Nono series - all inside this New Horizon Group. So I have a methodology of invention – from the Piano as a Percussion instrument - that I move to use with other Orchestral Percussion instruments. With electronics and Tapes and Studio Time - this then, is my Integral Percussion Series. Quite radical formulations for Piano – Glockenspiel – Prepared Piano –Vibraphone – Marimba and Cello - snaking across my established Genres as ‘Crosscurrents.’
An early reorganization of my music research interests had defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Metal Percussion music, MPM. Percussion on anything other than Drums. Percussion as a Generality as opposed to Drums as a Speciality. By Convention MPm.
Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, MPm. The third of five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion. Last of the five is Electronic music - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.
Albums number 28 to 58 form my second big publishing project or Group - the 'New Horizon' - built on the foundational 'Blue Cherry' Group - where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest, as Blocks of dedicated albums. Now in a new air I felt free to just reel them of as they came. Exploring like a man with a Time machine - where these five Genres, or Tranches, might lead me.
There are 3 MPm albums in the New Horizon group, MPm 4 – 6. MPm 4 is the ‘Sonata for Tuned Metal no. 1’ - the in two mvts – with a work for Clockworks and one for Bass Harmonics. MPm 5 is ‘Glocken’ – with three pieces - ‘Imprints for wood percussion’ - ‘Glocken,’ a 27 minute progress for Glockenspiel and ‘G – Square’ – a parallel meditation on Glocken, in itself a crosscurrent toward Electronic music. Lastly, MPm 6 ‘Etuda,’ also with 3 pieces – ‘Klavierstuck 4’ – for piano; ‘Sonataphon’ in 2 movements for Vibraphone and ‘Etuda,’ a charming little piece also for Vibraphone. Many of these pieces form part of my Integral Percussion Series – which like the Nono series cuts across my established Genres.
The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.
The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.
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released August 6, 2013
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