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Players One and Two: one 5-octave marimba (shared)
Player Three: 1st vibraphone
Player Four: 3 tom-toms, splash cymbal, triangle
Player Five: 2nd vibraphone, glockenspiel, triangle
(both vibraphones require foot-switch for motor)

• Psathas: Kyoto; computer set 

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Javanese rebab, slenthem (pelog), gambang (slendro), sound technician(s)

Shifting Shadows (2012) is inspired by Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie 1 (1964), in which the sounds of a tam-tam are manipulated in real time by the movement of hand-held microphones and through electronic filtering and diffusion of the amplified sound.

In my work three traditional Javanese gamelan instruments – gambang (xylophone), slenthem (metalophone), and rebab (spiked fiddle) – are activated by an array of household materials to generate sounds. In live performance I intend for additional ‘players’ to create other layers of sound using a microphone as a musical instrument. The recording attempts to convey this layering of sound.

The character of Shifting Shadows was inspired by the idea of the ‘familiar spirit’, which in old European folklore is a supernatural entity, sometimes taking the form of an animal or human figure, to assist witches and other cunning folk. The sounds used in Shifting Shadows are eerie, intimate and gestural, giving the impression of an unknown creature.

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I composed this piece in March 2010 in response to the opportunity to write for the Chinese Yangqin (hammered dulcimer) played by visiting performer Wang Hui. Like the narrative of the poem, I wanted to work with an imagined journey, beginning in one place and returning there. However, the poem itself became the traveller in this case, written in China, brought to a foreign land where it is interpreted and transmuted into another form before being re-connected with its origin through the Chinese instrumentation and performer.

Carol Shortis

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