Sonata for Tuned Metal No. 1 - Metal Percussion music, MPm 4. My 33rd album. Three pieces representing the first real coming of age for my Metal percussion Genre.
I had realised very early on that there was a second species of percussion, music quite separate from my Speciality of Drum percussion - Drum music or Dm - that would represent a more general approach to percussive instruments and objects. I called this Metal Percussion music. Actually percussion on anything other than drums - a second Genre or Tranche. The First three dedicated Albums of this were three volumes of Studies - my 'Metal Shop' studies and what a freedom that gave. Now with this fourth MPm album we have a Coming of age for MPm with - two important works and another study.
Sonata for tuned Metal no.1 – Rh 161.
Tuned in the sense that the sourced objects were capable of multiple pinches that when struck produced an array of beautiful harmonics - it is In two movements.
Clockworks – Rh 185.
Carefully recorded and precisely overplayed clock ticking – gave an Automation of off set percussion.
Kollapse – Rh 196.
Music howled from the metal strings of Siouxsie – my black Fender Fretless Bass - as with so much else in this time of invention and discovery.
“A Trio or Duo with a percussionist of that Calibre is a long nurtured Dream of mine” – Markus Wenninger – German Wind Specialist - Honored friend and Colleague – Twitter 19. 10. 2019
An early reorganization of my music research interests had defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Metal Percussion music, MPM. Percussion on anything other than Drums. Percussion as a Generality as opposed to Drums as a Speciality. By Convention MPm.
Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, MPm. The third of five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion. Last of the five is Electronic music - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.
Albums number 28 to 58 form my second big publishing project or Group - the 'New Horizon' - built on the foundational 'Blue Cherry' Group - where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest, as Blocks of dedicated albums. Now in a new air I felt free to just reel them of as they came. Exploring like a man with a Time machine - where these five Genres, or Tranches, might lead me.
There are 3 MPm albums in the New Horizon group, MPm 4 – 6. MPm 4 is the ‘Sonata for Tuned Metal no. 1’ in two mvts – with a work for Clockworks and one for Bass Harmonics. MPm 5 is ‘Glocken’ – with three pieces - ‘Imprints for wood percussion’ - ‘Glocken,’ a 27 minute progress for Glockenspiel and ‘G – Square’ – a parallel meditation on Glocken, itself a crosscurrent toward Electronic music. Lastly, MPm 6 ‘Etuda,’ also with 3 pieces – ‘Klavierstuck 4’ – for piano; ‘Sonataphon’ in 2 movements for Vibraphone and ‘Etuda,’ a charming little piece also for Vibraphone. Many of these pieces form part of my Integral Percussion Series – which like the Nono series cuts across my established Genres.
The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.
The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.
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