Giovanni Verrando

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Memorial art show (2005)

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for 6 percussion players

Commissioned by: Commande d’Etat Français
Written for: Les Percussions de Strasbourg
First performance: Strasbourg, Festival Musica, 30.09.2005
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Publisher: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni


Performance notes

I. filtering #2
II. harmonic domains
III. heterophonic #2

Duration: 15′

PERC 1:
Xylophone
Masterkeyboard + sampler + pedal volume
1 Stone (medium)
1 Ordinary inox spoon
1 Tubular bell (C 4)
2 Brake drums (D 5 – F6)
1 Plastic Kazoo
1 Gong Kwong Wong (C 4)
1 Iron container (bowl)
Iron tools: small bolts, small washers, small paper-clips
1 Small snare drum (high)
1 Clothes brush
1 Small funnel
1 Pair of sand blocks
2 Sheets of newspaper

PERC 2:
Marimba
Crotales: F 5, G 5, Ab 5
2 Medium flat pot lids
2 Small flat pot lids
1 Small snare drum (high)
2 Clothes brushes
1 Pair of big claves
1 Small suspended cymbal
1 Large Tam-tam (same as Perc 3)
2 Sheets of newspaper
2 Iron containers (bowls)
Medium-small nails
1 Ordinary inox spoon
1 Ocean drum (medium)

PERC 3:
Marimba
1 Air compressor
1 Plastic glass
1 Medium suspended cymbal
1 Pair of sand blocks
1 Small funnel
1 Large Tam-tam (same as Perc 2)
2 Sheets of newspaper
2 Medium flat pot lids
2 Clothes brushes
1 Plastic Kazoo
1 Small snare drum (high)
1 Low snare drum (military drum)

PERC 4:
Vibraphone
Glockenspiel
1 Air compressor
1 Low snare drum (military drum)
1 Clothes brush
1 Small funnel
2 Medium flat pot lids
3 Stones: high, medium, low
1 Bass drum (C -1)

PERC 5:
Vibraphone
Glockenspiel
3 Stones: high, medium, low
2 Sheets of newspaper
1 Small suspended cymbal
1 Large Tam-tam
1 Small funnel

PERC 6:
Vibraphone
2 Small flat pot lids
2 Large flat pot lids
3 Stones: high, medium, low
Hi-hat + pedal
1 Pair of big claves
1 Small suspended cymbal
1 Medium suspended cymbal
1 Very large suspended cymbal
1 Whip
2 Iron containers (bowls)
Iron tools: small bolts, small washers, small paper-clips
Chains (suspended)


 Technical rider

Technical equipment:
– 2 loudspeakers
– masterkeyboard + Macintosh computer
Sampler and Soundfiles are included in the cdrom, attached with score and parts
– 1 D.I. Box for masterkeyboard+Mac
– MIDI connection between Mac and masterkeyboard, via audio card (for ex. Pro Tools) or via USB, if the masterkeyboard has a USB output.

The sound of the sampler should be completely mixed with the percussion instruments.

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