© Sampo Haapamäki 2023

säveltäjä composer

HERITAGE (2016)

15'


for ensemble of Harry Partch instruments


16 musicians:

- ZymoXyl + Diamond Marimba

- Boo

- Bass Marimba

- Marimba Eroica

- Spoils of War

- Cloud-Chamber Bowls

- Gourd Tree with 2 Cone Gongs

- Crychord

- Harmonic Canon (without bridges, 43-tuning,

as used in Harry Partch’s 11 intrucions) + Gubagubi

- Adapted Guitar 2 + Adapted Guitar 1 + Drone Devil

- Surrogate Kithara

- Kithara 1 (Alto Kithara) + Bloboy

- Kithara 2 (Bass Kithara)

- Chromelodeon 1 + Bloboy (2 players)

  1. -Chromelodeon 2



commissioned by Time of Music festival

dedicated to ensemble Musikfabrik



premiere: July 7, 2016

Ensemble Musikfabrik

Christian Eggen, conductor

Paul Jeukendrup, sound design

“Pitch 43_tuning the cosmos”

Time of Music festival

Viitasaari Areena


June 17, 2018, 8 p.m.

Ensemble Musikfabrik

[Dirk Rothbrust, ZymoXyl + Diamond Marimba

  Rie Watanabe, Boo

  Bruce Collings, Bass Marimba

  Norbert Krämer, Marimba Eroica

  Gerrit Nulens, Spoils of War

  Carl Rosman, Cloud-Chamber Bowls

  Jonathan Shapiro, Gourd Tree with 2 Cone Gongs

  Axel Porath, Crychord

  Helen Bledsoe, Harmonic Canon + Gubagubi

  Melvyn Poore, Adapted Guitar 2 + Adapted Guitar 1  

  + Drone Devil

  Hannah Weirich, Surrogate Kithara

  Florentin Ginot, Kithara 1 (Alto Kithara)

  Christine Chapman, Kithara 2 (Bass Kithara)

  Dirk Wietheger, Bloboy + Chromelodeon

  Ulrich Löffler, Chromelodeon 1

  Benjamin Kobler, Chromelodeon 2]


Paul Jeukendrup, sound design

Sian Edwards, conductor

Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz

Cologne