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John Psathas  

Matre's Dance

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1991
for piano and percussion

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Ross Carey  

Procession

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1994
for piano solo and gamelan

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    In Procession I use several unorthodox playing techniques on the gamelan. The tunings of pelog and slendro are combined freely throughout; the piano remains tuned as is usual (well-tempered chromatic). The instruments are not dampened, but are left to ring on while subsequent notes are played, giving the effect of clouds of sound. Compositionally as well the piece is not at all conventional, but explores the gamelan in different ways both harmonically and melodically.

    In the first movement this is through combining the close intervals between the pelog and slendro modes; in Quartet through step-wise ascending movement; in the fifth movement, a transcription of a short Liszt’s Ave Maria, the gamelan approximates the triadic harmonies of the piano original. The third movement, Melody in Pelog and Slendro, is closest to a traditional Javanese composition, although here the free intermingling of the two modes creates an unusual effect. As well, various instruments are used in atypical ways – the Gong in the first movement struck with an open palm and functioning as a rhythmic marker, or the kempul in the third movement acting as an ostinato; over this rebab and gender elaborate melodic patterns combining the two tunings. The piano is sometimes used as a timbral device (as in the opening movement) and sometimes more in a melodic manner, as in the Finale.

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Ross Harris  

Ricochet

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1999
for three percussionists

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Juliet Palmer  

Self

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1990
For three percussionists

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John Psathas  

Spike

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1998
for percussion and piano

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Gareth Farr  

Tuatara

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1998
for percussion and piano

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    marimba, unpitched percussion, gong, and piano
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    As part of the 1998 Sunday Concert series of the Wellington Chamber Music Society, Gareth Farr and pianist Dan Poynton presented a concert of music for percussion and piano, which had the unifying theme of the New Zealand forest. The concert hall was decked out with potted plants and giant fern fronds for the occasion, and the eclectic programme included the new arrangement of Poyton’s Moa and the specially-composed companion-piece, Tuatara. Each was named after a creature unique to New Zealand’s native fauna – the moa was a giant, flightless and now extinct bird, and tuatara is a remarkable reptile, thought to be a species which has existed since the time of the dinosaurs.


    Tuatara is based on two musical idea which are heard concurrently at the beginning. A jaunty, angular, syncopated theme in the piano part is set against the marimba’s running semiquavers. The musical argument of the work is entirely derived from these two ideas, which are exchanged between the instruments and subjected to development by variation. The percussion part is enhanced through the additional of tom toms and cymbals as the work proceeds.


    from Tangaroa – Trust Records

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Ross Carey  

Two Pieces for Three Gamelan Players

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1999
for two sarons, and one demung

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    two sarons - one tuned in slendro and one in pelog; one demung tuned in slendro
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    In these pieces for a ‘chamber grouping’ of just three gamelan instruments, I used as the basis for composition a combined scale made up of pelog and slendro. The first piece combines a repeated ostinato and melody in a laid-back ‘bluesy’ kind of way. The second piece is a wholly serial composition consisting of a repeated cycle; the three performers play each note of their instrument once only (making a complete cycle) before again the notes are played in the same order, although the ensemble can be varied in the subsequent repetition. Written for Wellington’s Gamelan Padhang Moncar to perform at the Beat International Festival of Gamelan held in Wellington in 1999, and recorded on CD by them on Portal 1001/2.

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Gareth Farr  

Volume Pig

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1992
for percussion quartet

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    Percussion 1: low tomtoms, crotales, 5 temple blocks, glockenspiel, toy pistol, bongos, whistle;
    Percussion 2: low tomtoms, marimba, 5 woodblocks, crotales, toy pistol, 2 cowbells, timbale, whistle;
    Percussion 3: low tomtoms, bass drum, suspended cymbal, 2 brake drums, 3 log drums, toy pistol, splash cymbal, whistle;
    Percussion 4: low tomtoms, bass drum, suspended cymbal, small metal plate, hammer, 2 brake drums, snare drum, toy pistol, shaker, whistle, tamtam
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