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Wrestling Monks

from Jarak Jauh by Nick Brooke

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Wrestling Monks is based on a melody called "putut gelut" (roughly, "wrestling monks"), which is played on the Javanese gender. In this ornate fragment, the hands of the gender player cascade over each other in ultra-quick hocket, wrestling with each other without ever touching. Wrestling Monks is also about two harmonic systems, pelog and slendro, whose tunings wrangle with each other in sympathy and dissonance. The two players in Wrestling Monks sit side-saddle to the genders and move in slow choreography that push and pull like two magnets.

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from Jarak Jauh, released November 1, 2017
Chris MIller and Nick Brooke, gendèrs

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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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