composer
The music of Brendan Faegre (b. 1985, USA) unites the traditions within which he was formed: jazz and rock drumming, Hindustani classical, and contemporary concert music.
Faegre's music has been performed around the ...
related works
Lys-slått : for baroque violin / Brendan Faegre
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vln
Géographie intérieure : pour grand orchestre, 1970/75 / Jo van den Booren
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4444 4431 4perc hp pf str(24.8.8.6.)
Mouvement Symphonique : for orchestra / Theo Smit Sibinga
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
orchestra
Theseusfantasie : voor orkest, 1984 / Kees Olthuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3343 4331 timp 4perc 2hp str
composition
Analog Intelligence : for orchestra / Brendan Faegre
Description:
Analog Intelligence was originally written for my violin/drum-kit/electronics trio ‘Bow Hammer Connection’. It was a 21st Century Dance Suite, exploring five Electronic Dance Music genres: Dubstep, IDM, Ambient, Acid House, and Drum 'n' Bass. Although we may think of these styles as unrelated to the Sarabandes, Menuets, and Gigues of Bach’s famous dance suites, these EDM genres are our contemporary equivalent. In Analog Intelligence, as in Bach’s suites and partitas, each dance is taken as a starting point for creating a piece of concert music – something to stimulate the body, yes, but also the mind and ears.
When Roger Kalia approached me about writing a piece for the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, I knew the dance suite could be done great justice in a detailed orchestration. I chose three of the movements – Dubstep, IDM, and Drum ‘n’ Bass – and set about translating the heavily electronic soundworld of the original piece into the language of an acoustic orchestra. The echo effect became slow wah-wah mutes in the brass, the distortion effect became aluminum foil mutes in the strings, and the reverb effect became airy sounds from all sections of the orchestra. In this new version a unique sonic environment is born, straddling the line between acoustic orchestral and electronic chamber music.