Concerto for Water, Percussion & Orchestra

[Ash Armstrong]

Happened upon the glorious and joyful piece of music wholly by accident this morning, and was instantly beguiled!
Played it through twice, and downloaded the audio onto my phone. I think it'll work nicely when I'm out for a walk.

[Mr. Holland]

Well, it's something different for sure. Not only making music with water is experimental, so is the music of the orchestra surrounding it.

Not sure if I'm an immediate fan though. But I am prepared to give it several tries.

[pianozach]

Happened upon the glorious and joyful piece of music wholly by accident this morning, and was instantly beguiled!
Played it through twice, and downloaded the audio onto my phone. I think it'll work nicely when I'm out for a walk.

That was quite nice. Tonal and organic simultaneously.

[pjt]

Holy atonal noise Batman. But also great at the same time. Not my first choice for an easy listening, but nevertheless very creative.

[madbear]

Lovely piece Ash. Do you know Ingram Marshall's Fog Tropes piece which uses foghorn sounds? and some of john cage's work with water in conch shells? all good stuff

Here's a recording of Fog Tropes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvfxl96bPXE&t=77s

[madbear]

John Cage Water Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ik4VMcLkA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4YDBmmO2Aw

John Cage, Water Walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXOIkT1-QWY

I can't find the piece i was thinking of. I saw Cage playing conch shells with water in live at a Merce Cunningham dance performance in London in the 1980s.

[madbear]

aha, here's INLETS by john cage, for 3 conch shells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9dX9sw0kh4

This work was originally used as music for the eponymous choreographed piece by Merce Cunningham, with stage decors and costume design by Morris Graves. It was used again in 1983 for the Cunningham work entitled Inlets 2, with stage design by Mark Lancaster. In this work, players are instructed to tip amplified conch shells of varying sizes that have been partially filled with water in order to produce gurgling sounds. The work also calls for the sound of burning pine cones (live or recorded) and a single tone produced on a conch shell, used as a trumpet. The work was part of the “Sounday” event. This work exemplifies Cage’s interest in "contingency", in his definition meaning "improvisation using elements in which there is a discontinuity between cause and effect." [John Cage Complete Works website]

[Soundwaveseeker]

This concerto sounds way cool. I'm going to have to listen to this in more attentive detail all the way though. Playing percussion tubes with a flip flop is certainly experimental. Tonal and atonal, sometimes both altogether, very atmospheric. I approve!