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Sheet Music: ScoreMahk Resonance and Emergent Moon : for guzheng / Bruce Crossman.by Bruce Crossman (2025)
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Mahk Resonance and Emergent Moon is inspired by oppositional energy types from Korean architect Cho Byoung's improvisational 'roughness' Mahk concept, and Chinese contemporary ink painter Wang Yunyun's subtle emergence of the moon in Mountain and Seas Have Moonlight (2022). The two energies work in a vigorous but symbiotic contest in the music where the vigorousness and timbre subtleties move from eruptive stillness to frenetic movement and back to the stillness. The structural energy patterns are from extremely slow rough stillness, through double transitions, to frenetic improvisatory roughness, and then transition back to rough-stillness, where Mahk-like roughness (resonant noisey arpeggio) and subtle Moon emergence (harmonics) coalesce as a type of sonic signature, mirroring Wang's calligraphical personal signature of improvisatory and structured marks. Within this macrocosmic shape, smaller gestures bring a flowing energy to the music through two organisational areas. The first set of gestures are Mahk-like sounds of rough arpeggio gestures, continuous energy arpeggios, acciaccatura patterns, raw bluesy fourths pressings and melodic slides, vigorous vibrato multi-string shakes, culminating in aleatory bluesy fourth-chord slides. The second set of gestures are emergence ideas of long vibratos deploying subtle string colours (sul tasto, sul ponticello, flautando), quiet long tremolo lines, and delicately appearing harmonics.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (8p. -- B4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Advanced — Complex rhythmic detail and changing colour nuances
Duration: 10 mins
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc in relation to this work:
Korean architect Cho Byoung’s improvisational ‘roughness’ Mahk concept, Chinese contemporary ink painter Wang Yunyun’s subtle visual emergence, Japanese shō music, the New York free jazz exponents Matthew Shipp, Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey, and Korean gayageum sanjo as well as Chinese guzheng musics.
The work will be performed and recorded by Yuyan Tang in 2025, with support from the Graduate Research School, Western Sydney University.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-67316-993-7
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