Heritage
2016
15 min
For ensemble of Harry Partch instruments
Commissioned by Time of Music festival
Dedicated to ensemble Musikfabrik
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Ensemble Musikfabrik
Christian Eggen, conductor
Paul Jeukendrup, sound design
“Pitch 43_tuning the cosmos”
Time of Music festival
Viitasaari Areena
July 7, 2016
Instrumentation
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)
-Chromelodeon 2
Performances
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