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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

Videos & audio

Heritage (2016, 15 min)
for ensemble of Harry Partch instruments
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Sian Edwards, conductor
Paul Jeukendrup, sound design
Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Köln
17.6.2018
Heritage (2016, 15 min)
for ensemble of Harry Partch instruments
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Sian Edwards, conductor
Paul Jeukendrup, sound design
Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Köln
17.6.2018