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Countout

by julian Broadhurst

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Rh 133 Antis 22:00
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Rh 134 Countout 1 17:18
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Rh 135 Countout 2 12:07
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Rh 136 Countout Duet - Countertone 18:24
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DCM 017 Countout - Music for Strings, electronics and Percussion, MSEP 2 - a second collection of MSEP Studies - my 17th album.

Rather more than just studies, here focused around the Cello. Four consecutive works come together as an Album. Countout was the album focused on in musicologist Tom Hewitt's 2018 PhD study of me.

This is my Storm unt Drang Period, a time of Noisy, grinding, Brutalistic string works, smashed to pieces with electronics. The Cello became my ultimate dissonance engine. Someone once said 'you can't play a wrong note on a saxophone,' to a certain extent I felt that was true of the Cello, where it's every extra musical sound, of playing or tuning, or microtonal interval, was redolent of music production and of the visceral excitement I feel for the barbarism of Contemporary string texture. An Elementalising of String Texture.

"Countout 1 and 2 draw the listener in, as if party to an otherwise inaccessible conversation. Beguiling work" - Professor Joe Pignato - American Percussionist and Composer - 4th August 2015.

Antis - Rh 133' [from anticipation]. A study on Beethoven that makes you wait, and wait for the punchline - from a moments observation to a careful Paraphrase or parody if you prefer.

Countout 1 and 2 for Cello and electronics - Rh 134 an 135. The Countout works can be heard as separate works or together or as a pair, they are related but independent works. They are choppy Dynamic pieces, focusing on Gradations of Tone colour and sways of dynamics. Abstract Expressionism for cello, brittle and brutal.

'Countertone' or Countout Duet - Rh 136. A duet of Countout one - where neither instrument keeps perfect time with the other over 18 minutes so the interest is in their possible variance, but the electronics blurs their performance's - so the devil closes the circle.


An early reorganization of my music research interest 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 Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP - best described simply as 'Electro Acoustic music with orchestral instruments,' – by convention MPM.

Albums 16 - 18, are the first three MSEP albums, placed in a block, one of 5 blocks, placed like books on a shelf. in an in an overarching 'Group' of my first 27albums. Five Blocks for the Five Tranches - as they were founded (more of less) - five sets of studies and pieces, as my Foundational Group 'Blue Cherry' [after a friend]. The foundation stone the rest of my music is built on - in four further Groups.

The three MSEP albums in the Blue Cherry Group are three Volumes of quite advanced studies – MSEP 1 The Beethoven Transcriptions; MSEP 2 Count Out – a set of pieces for Cello and Electronics. Which features largely in Tom Hewitt’s PhD study of my work; MSEP 3 Termanstrung [time and strings] for Cello and Elecronics – also with the Cello as a percussion instrument, percussing with fingers on its body.

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 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 - by Convention MSEP.

The album numbers are 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 to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my works in order of Completion.

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released May 21, 2013

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