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HORIZON
EVENT
EVENT HORIZON

Asphyxiating

for percussion trio

hen approaching
the Tresonant Per-
Wcussion Trio project, I
firstly spend some time think-
ing on the instruments I could
write for and how the combi-
nation of some of them would
sound. Whilst thinking on the
instrumentation I would write
for, I realized that what I had
in mind were textural sounds
rather than elements such
as melody, harmony, tempi
or structure. In other words,
what I wanted to create was E.Glennie -| Playing Around The Office |
Part 8 – Thundersheet
something atmospheric.
Thus, I have chosen to write NOTE
for Thundersheet, Tam-tam I had written for Tam-
and Vibraphone (with motors tam and Vibraphone before;
on), as all of these instru- however, I have never written
ments could provide long for Thundersheet. The vid-
lasting resonance, creating eo above was the one which
an interesting texture and at- influenced me to write for it,
mosphere. as it captures elements of the
soundscape I was trying to
create with this composition.
The piece had to be
60 seconds long, I presumed,
based on my intuition, that
the soundscape I wanted to
create would suit the occa-
sion. I was aware that the I was very aware of the
soundscape I wanted could sombre and ghostly sound of
not be represented in Stand- bowed Thunder Sheet and
ard Western Classical Nota- superball Tam-tam, thus, the
tion; thus, by being aware of sound world that I wanted to
the piece’s length, I opted to create was one as in a horror
use stopwatches and time film or video game. I wanted
codes, eliminating the sense the music to feel as if every
of pulse and use of time sig- second which was passing,
natures (unless when used as breathing became harder
an aleatoric mean, as on the and harder until the end is
vibraphone part). reached. The Vibraphone is