Work
Cradles : for percussion duo, with live or pre-recorded Wurlitzer e-piano
by Thomas Meadowcroft (2013)
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Performance by Speak Percussion from the CD Percussion Works |
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CD
Percussion Works / Thomas Meadowcroft ; Speak Percussion.
Library shelf no. CD 3122 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Cradles is a lullaby, to help put treasured analogue musical equipment to bed. The work takes its inspiration from the sensuous, tactile relationship between a performer and his or her instrument.
Work Details
Year: 2013
Instrumentation: 2 reel-to-reel tape machines, spliced audio tape, bells (suspended), finger cymbals, various assorted shakers, castanets, Japanese toy drums, various assorted chimes (shells, wood, goats' toes nails, light bulbs, light metal etc.) (suspended), glockenspiel/glockenspiel bars, stereo PA, keyboard (electric piano and/or transistor organ), OR playback (combinations of analogue playback: reel to reel tape machines, record players etc.).
Duration: 10 min.
Dedication note: Dedicated to Julian Burnside, Speak Percussion
Commission note: Commissioned by Maerzmusik Berlin, Julian Burnside.
First performance: at Speak Percussion at Berliner Festspiele (Haus der Berliner Festspiele) on 16 Mar 2013
Analysis
Resonate article: Featured video - Thomas Meadowcroft's Cradles by Australian Music Centre
Performances of this work
24 Oct 2014: at Speak Percussion in Hong Kong (2B, 3/F, Blue Box Factory Building). Featuring Speak Percussion.
16 Aug 2014: at Speak Percussion: Circuit (Iwaki Auditorium). Featuring Speak Percussion.
16 Mar 2013: at Speak Percussion at Berliner Festspiele (Haus der Berliner Festspiele).
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