Login

Enter your username and password

Forgotten your username or password?

Your Shopping Cart

There are no items in your shopping cart.

Work

Action music 2 : flexible instrumentation

by Erik Griswold (2017)

Action music 2

$27.27

Add to cart

Score

Action music 2 / Erik Griswold.

Library shelf no. 785/GRI 2 [Available for loan]

Work Overview

Action Music 2 is the sequel to my 2013 composition Action Music, created for The Listening Museum, and premiered in the working factory of Urban Art Projects. Action Music opened up new directions for me. It was my first "open instrumentation" composition, the first to use extensive graphic notation, and the first to use a "non-specific pitch" notation. In AM2 I've explored other possible meanings of "action music," such as connections with Jackson Pollock's action painting, and notions of musical and political action, in particular considering influences from African-American music (Charlie Parker) and Fluxus (Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles). I'm really grateful to the APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund for their support of the project, and the wonderful musicians of Aventa Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, Ensemble 0, Ensemble Offspring, and Naked Eye Ensemble to whom it's dedicated: your skill, dedication and creativity is inspiring, to say the least.

Work Details

Year: 2017

Instrumentation: Open instrumentation.

Duration: 12 min.

Dedication note: Action Music 2 is dedicated to is dedicated to these amazingensembles:Aventa Ensemble (Canada)Crash Ensemble (Ireland)Ensemble Offspring (Australia)Ensemble 0 (France)NakedEye Ensemble (USA)

Commission note: Action Music 2 was created with generous support from the APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund.

First performance: by Ensemble Offspring at Ensemble Offspring: Sizzle (Petersham Bowling Club) on 29 Apr 2018

Videos

Action Music II
 

Performances of this work

15 Oct 2022: at Upstairs @ The Glebe: CHANGING EARS (The Glebe Hotel). Featuring the music box project.

31 Aug 2019: at Extended Play (City Recital Hall). Featuring UNSW New Music Collective.

29 Apr 2018: at Ensemble Offspring: Sizzle (Petersham Bowling Club). Featuring Ensemble Offspring.

3 Mar 2018: at Connecting the Dots - Ensemble Offspring in Hong Kong (ArtisTree: Taikoo Place ). Featuring Ensemble Offspring.

User reviews

Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this work.

To post a comment please login.