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Score
Not By Halves : for four sustaining instruments / Damien Ricketson.
Library shelf no. 785/RIC 4 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Not by Halves continues my interest in the 'open-form' in music. That is, music in which there is no single version, but rather a deliberate multitude of possible versions. In the tradition of John Zorn's 'game pieces', Not by Halves is a text-based work: a set of rules that governs the way in which performers cooperate without specifying exactly how they should sound. Scored for any quartet of homogenous instruments and looking more like a flowchart than a traditional score, the game plays out in two halves (plus a half-time intermezzo), whereby the musicians try to halve prevailing musical structures such as pitch and rhythm that in turn triggers chains of interactions and musical patterns.
-- Damien Ricketson
Work Details
Year: 2015
Instrumentation: A rule-based musical environment for four similar-sounding sustaining instruments. (For example: 4 wind players, string quartet, 4 electric guitars, etc.)
Duration: 7 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Commission note: Commissioned for Ensemble Offspring.. Commissioned by Musify+Gamify
First performance: by Ensemble Offspring at Musify Gamify: Concert 1 (Seymour Centre) on 29 May 2015
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:
Open score, game-piece, John Zorn
Flexible duration 6-10 mins.
Videos
Not by halves |
Performances of this work
23 Jun 2016: at ANAM Australian Voices: Damien Ricketson (Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon). Featuring Ensemble Offspring.
29 May 2015: at Musify Gamify: Concert 1 (Seymour Centre). Featuring Ensemble Offspring.
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