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Termanstrung

by julian Broadhurst

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Termanstrung Rh 137 29:02
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Cello-Tam Rh 138 09:11
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Echung Rh 139 28:58
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DCM 018 Termanstrung - Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, MSEP 3. - my 18th Album. A third collection of MSEP Studies, rather more than just studies. As with MSEP 2 it is also focused around the Cello. Three consecutive works come together as an Album.

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, an echo of musicality past, distant past, and of the visceral excitement I feel for the barbarism of Contemporary string texture. An Elementalising of String Texture.

Termanstrung - Rh 137. Term and strung - Term, Period and Termination, and Strung, Strings: for Solo Cello and a Carpet Bombing raid of electronics. This is the Storm and the Stress, of Storm and Drang.

Cello-tam - Rh 138. The Cello as a percussive sound Box, tapping on the instrument's body to produce a resonance. Hence Cello-tam', as in Tam Tam.

Echung - Rh 139 .A fusion of Echo and Strung, 'Echo String' - a sister piece of Termanstrung, on largely similar lines.


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 June 5, 2013

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