Sheet Music: ScoreThis year's apocalypse : for large ensemble / Matthew Hindson.by Matthew Hindson (2016)
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It seems that every year we hear of some disaster that is soon to
wipe humanity from the face of the earth. In my lifetime, I can
think of global warming, global cooling, the destruction of the
ozone layer, nuclear war and nuclear winter, chemical and
biological weapons, Y2K, GM foods, religious terrorism,
neuroweapons, artificial intelligence, asteroid collision, Gamma
Ray explosion, destruction of the universe through the CERN
Hadron Collider, global overpopulation, plastic pollution
destroying the oceans, SARS, AIDS, the Zika virus and even the
Rapture.
The human race is still with us. And hopefully despite humanity's
compulsion with the possibility of us ceasing to exist, we will
continue.
In This Year's Apocalypse I have taken ideas of
apocalypse and large-scale disaster and shaped them musically
throughout the ensemble. Instrument families mostly work together
in groups or as an entire unit, in addition to soloistic features
here and there. To add some 'real life' elements, I have graphed
the numbers of nuclear weapons on the planet combined with the
number of HIV infections across the planet and converted the
shape into a series of notes. This forms the basis of much of the
harmony in the piece, the intention being that it may be suitably
terrifying.
There is a featured section in the middle of This Year's
Apocalypse for solo horn. The horn part represents in
individual in the midst of all the ensuing chaos, gloom and doom,
living their life and even experiencing human emotions, such as
love, tenderness and compassion.
© Matthew Hindson, 2016
Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from Faber Music) — 1 score (69p. -- B4 (portrait))
Duration: 12 mins
First performance by Verbrugghen Ensemble at Verbrugghen Ensemble (Verbrugghen Hall) on 4 Oct 2016
Includes programme note.
Typeset edition.
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