Fox, Christopher: Revolutionary Movements
for instrumental quintet
Fox, Christopher: Revolutionary Movements
for instrumental quintet
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Revolutionary Movements?(2015-16)?for five instruments (percussion, keyboard, three melody instruments, two of which must be able to play glissandi); four movements, each about 5 minutes long, which may be played in any order, the first one repeated at the end to make a complete sequence of five movements:
Gyroscope
Reel
Spindrift
The Wheel of Fortune
Premiered by the Brenda Faegre Edge Ensemble, Splendor, Amsterdam, 17 May 2017. Each movement has some sort of variable element: in ?Gyroscope?, two of the players engage in competitive improvising; in ?Spindrift? timing is determined by a series of sustained actions ? grinding, pouring, tearing, etc ? performed by the percussionist. This music began in the summer of 2015 in a dream in which notated figures seemed to be moving vertically past collections of pitches ? a sort of pinball score; that idea has survived, although in a more worked-out form, in ?Reel? and ?The Wheel of Fortune?.
Gyroscope
Reel
Spindrift
The Wheel of Fortune
Premiered by the Brenda Faegre Edge Ensemble, Splendor, Amsterdam, 17 May 2017. Each movement has some sort of variable element: in ?Gyroscope?, two of the players engage in competitive improvising; in ?Spindrift? timing is determined by a series of sustained actions ? grinding, pouring, tearing, etc ? performed by the percussionist. This music began in the summer of 2015 in a dream in which notated figures seemed to be moving vertically past collections of pitches ? a sort of pinball score; that idea has survived, although in a more worked-out form, in ?Reel? and ?The Wheel of Fortune?.
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