Sheet Music: ScorePractical mechanics : an ode to technological optimism, for chamber ensemble / Chris Perren.by Chris Perren (2012)
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Practical Mechanics is an ode to technological optimism,
and playfully explores the belief that science can solve all
human problems. The titles and text excerpts are taken from the
tattered pages of vintage issues of Practical Mechanics Magazine,
a home science and technology magazine published between 1933 and
1963.
The collision of hard scientific law with domestic
human life, is reflected by the juxtaposition of mathematical and
rule-based compositional approaches and the ineffably chaotic
nature of human musical intuition. Practical Mechanics employs
various rational and rule-based pattern-making techniques,
including Schillingerian methods, list structures, additive and
constructive techniques and others devised by the composer. This
machine-like nature is especially prominent within the rhythm of
the piece, and imbues the work with a complex yet controlled
sense of mechanical determinacy. The harmony on the other hand is
immediate and expressive, referring more to popular and folk
music and reflecting the human needs central to the development
and use of technology.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (22p. -- A3 (landscape))
Difficulty: Medium — The difficulty lies less in individual parts, and more in executing the rhythms accurately as an ensemble.
Duration: 25 min.
The great awakening -- Construction details of a novel and fascinating machine -- Hovercrat: transport of the future -- Photographing noise -- The shape of wings to come.
First performance by Nonsemble — 7 Jun 13. The Box, West End, Brisbane
Includes program notes and performance notes.
The composer notes for the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:
Post-minimalism, Post-rock, art-rock, chamber, minimalism
Typeset edition.
This edition produced 2013.
ISMN: 979-0-720142-74-6
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