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Walking​/​Falling

from Jarak Jauh by Nick Brooke

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Laurie Anderson said that walking is a form of falling where we catch ourselves at every step. Javanese gamelan also walks a fine line between mistake and finesse. All 20+ instruments of the gamelan orchestra play roughly the same melody, elaborating with often simple 1-2 oom-pah alternations. But these walking patterns constantly speed up and slow down, and sometimes don't synch up. As the orchestra switches rhythmic speeds (there are four irama in gamelan), players use their own rubato; the result can sound like a stuttered cacophony. Walking/Falling uses a melodic chestnut of the repertoire, Ladrang Wilujeng, which begins 2-1-2-6 2-1-2-3. My piece takes this tune through increasing spirals, on a homebuilt set of hubcaps, pans, dinner gongs, and six bonang pots, all tuned to the Javanese systems pelog and slendro.

Thanks to Matthew Gold for revitalizing this piece, originally a ZOOM Series commission for Dan Druckman/Merkin Hall.

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from Jarak Jauh, released November 1, 2017
Matthew Gold, percussion

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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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