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Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
traverso vln vla vc cemb
Boosh-Wah : for flute, vibraphone and string orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl vib 4vl 2vla 2vc db
Der Geburtstag der Infantin : for mandolin, guitar and harp / Franz Schreker; arr. Kees Arntzen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
mand gtr hp
I still got the Blues : for Hammond organ, tenor saxophone and drums / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
sax-t dr org
composition
fragile twisted inharmonic : for ensemble / Brendan Faegre
Author(s):
Faegre, Brendan
(Composer)
Description:
"fragile twisted inharmonic" is a work exploring the sonic environment of a favorite album from my teenage years: Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile.
In order to determine what it was about this album that left such a strong impression, I spent several days re-immersing myself in the music. My first discovery was that it wasn't the melodies, grooves, forms, or lyrics that were so powerfully constructed, but rather the individual sounds themselves, brilliantly sculpted and combined by Trent Reznor and Alan Moulder. My second discovery was that most of these sounds fit into two basic categories. The first category consists of violent, loud sounds, where almost every instrument's signal is distorted so heavily it begins to approach noise. The second contains delicate, quieter sounds, with a focus on inharmonic instruments like piano, plucked strings, and pitched percussion, and their correspondingly unique tunings.
I contemplated deeply the ideas of distortion, noise, and inharmonicity, their sonic and conceptual implications, and their relationship to the performers and instruments that make up Ensemble Klang. Then I wrote some music.