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Dirt to Gold : for chamber orchestra / Brendan Faegre

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp trb trb-b timp perc hp 2vln vla vc db

Nini : voor altviool en gitaar, 1986, revisie 1987 / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: g vla

Double scorpio : voor marimba solo en 10 accordeons, 1991 / Henk Alkema

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 8acc 2acc-b mar-solo

Torkest : suite voor accordeonorkest, 2001 / Cor van Meteren

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Accordion; Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 3acc acc-b perc

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.