Timber

Timber
~ Slagwerk den Haag (Artist), Michael Gordon (Composer), -- (Conductor)
Release Date: August 30, 2011

Buy new: $14.76

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Review & Description

Featuring limited edition packaging in a real wooden box with heat stamped cover design, Timber is composed by Michael Gordon, co-founder of Bang on a Can and Cantaloupe Music. Timber is an evening-length tour de force. Scored for six graduated wooden Simantras percussion instruments devised by French composer Iannis Xenakis the work brings the physicality, endurance and technique of percussion performance to a new level. In this new work, Gordon shapes the music in both polyrhythmic and dynamic waves of textures often each players' hands are in separate rhythmic 'worlds', each traversing a different dynamic contour from loud to soft to loud, similar in some respects to his solo for percussion, XY.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2448 in Music
• Released on: 2011-08-30
• Number of discs: 1