Sonata for Three Drums - Drum music, Dm 9 - My 31st album. The third piece in my Birthday Triptych.
Sonata for Three Drums - Rh 149.
The first of three works, alongside albums 29 and 30, created to celebrate my 40th birthday - my Birthday Triptych - flashing back to my Art years.
Recorded over three evenings at Isabel, as fundamentally Staged percussion Works - each for three enormous drums, with varying degrees of metal and Electronics. Each exploring a different musical area of this broad idea, each being part of an overarching series, that crosses the boundaries of my established Genres – that I call a ‘Crosscurrent’. Each piece is then in three movements.
Album no. 31, I styled as a Sonata, a Performance piece, recorded live to tape, where you are invited to be the audience. This last piece is overtly Drum percussion hence it became Dm 9 and the Triptych grounds at its Percussion root.
they Confront you – like giant Abstract Expressionist Canvases.
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 Drum music – 'Percussion specifically on Drums of various kinds - as a Speciality.’
Dm by convention.
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 5 Dm albums in the New Horizon Group, Dm 8 to 12. Dm 8 is 'Inventions for Tibetan Drum;' Dm 9 is the Concert piece 'Sonata for 3 Drums' which is the third piece in my Birthday Triptych. Then follow three collections of Drum studies, my ‘Isabel’ Studies, after the new ‘Isabel’ Studio - Dm 10 ‘High Abandon’ - Dm 11 ‘April Awaken’ and Dm 12 ‘Under Drum.’ Dm 12 marks a completion of a kind – and a long break from Drum music. I return to it with a 2nd and 3rd set of inventions for Djembe at album 92, at the end of my ‘Inner Blue Group.’
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.
credits
released June 12, 2011
julian Broadhurst - Composition and Perfomance 3 trums et al - Studio, Mastering, remaster 2013.
Cover Tetow and Broadhurst
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