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Very Quiet Music

by julian Broadhurst

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Very Quiet music - Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, MSEP 8 - my 45th album. This is Concert music, of delicacy and dare I say it of myself, yes, beauty, I think it has some thing of that in conception and performance. It is for the patient, the curious of the imperceptible - writ large.

'Very Quiet Music' - Rh 204.

At a time of my fathers illness he became very sensitive to noise, I started thinking about very quiet things. I had been making alot of very loud music, but tried to imagine a music that for the most part would be as quiet as possible, a Very Quiet Music. Simply turning the volume down any piece of music will quieten it, but, I wanted a performance as pianissimo as possible, a Very Quiet music. Bernhard Gunnter had managed the almost imperceptible, but I didn't just want to do that. I wanted a living music, that for the most part had to keep it's quiet. As it turned out, this music had such passion that It was barely able to keep it's quiet, and sometimes it would just have to burst out of it's bounds with the sheer passion of being that music. Recorded live in the Large space at Isabel without an invited audience, as even a dropped pin could have ruined the recording. Hence this is concert music for private performance, as a recording, where you have carpets to hush pins you may drop.

If you turn the volume up at first, particularly with headphones, please beware - it has a huge dynamic range.


'I could have told who wrote this music from second 1 - Julian, your spirit is clearly there in this piece' - Frederick Kojevnikov - French Contemporary Composer - June 2015.

'I stand by this as a piece of conceptual painting' - Julian Broadhurst


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 Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion or MSEP - basically Electro acoustic music with Orchestral Instruments. By Convention MSEP.

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 10 MSEP albums in the New Horizon Group, MSEP 4 - 13. MSEP 4 ‘Particulate’ – the first three pieces in in my Nono Series - after a single fragment from Nono. MSEP 5 ‘Klavierstuck 1- 3,’ begin the other big series in the Group – the Integral Percussion Series - coupled then with another Nono piece. MSEP 6 ‘Counting’ is a sister album to MSEP 2 ‘Count-out.’ MSEP 7 ‘Nonoquinox’ [pronounced No No[K] Qi-nox presents two severe settings of the Nono fragment for strings - the Trio e Nono and Nonoquinox. MSEP 8 ‘Very Quiet Music’ is ‘a music that for the most part would be as quiet as possible, a Very Quiet Music but ... ’ MSEP 9 ‘Uranic Phase’ – is music for bowed Electric Bass and Electronics. MSEP 10 ‘Sonatabass’ - a display piece in four movements, coupled with ‘The Logic and the Apple – both for Bowed Bass. MSEP 11 ‘Sonata for Prepared Piano’ has four pieces ending with the Sn for Piano prep. MSEP 12 ‘Algorim’ has two works for Marimba and one for Electronic Cello – ending the Integral Percussion Series. Lastly MSEP 13 ‘Turing’ with two pieces in my Nono Series – Particulate five and Turing Boogie Woogie.

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
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released May 1, 2013

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