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Rubber Spike

from Jarak Jauh by Nick Brooke

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The rebab, or spike fiddle, is one of the more nasal intrusions into the Javanese gamelan orchestra. It’s the instrument that’s most often omitted by American composers for the gamelan. Yet its buzzing sound guides the rest of the orchestra melodically, and its near-constant playing stretches like spandex as the gamelan descends through different rhythmic levels, or irama. In this piece, I’ve stretched out a solo rebab introduction, or buka, until all the rebab’s scratches, bounces, and ricochets become amplified.

This piece began as a collaboration with the ensemble Sekar Anu, and a version was premiered in 2004 in Bali.

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from Jarak Jauh, released November 1, 2017

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Nick Brooke Bennington, Vermont

Nick Brooke mixes musical sampling, lipsynching, and theater into a genre all its own. In his works, vocalists and actors are trained to mimic sampled collages of sound effects, pop songs, and musical ephemera, blurring the line between recording and live performance. His works have been performed at the Lincoln Center Festival, HERE, and Mass MoCA. ... more

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