Chasing Buddies

Item details

• Description +

  • Duration: 8 min.
    
    For more information please contact the Publishing House.

• Instrumentation +

  • Percussion Duo:
    
    Player 1
    Vibraphone
    Hi-hat (please see description below)
    Metal (please see description below)
    Crash cymbal
    
    Hi-hat with old broken cymbals or other things to produce a sound like hand claps/snare dr. Since you have to play the hihat and vibraphone using the pedal at the same time, the hi-hat is suggested to be placed in a convenient spot so you can operate it with your left foot heel whilst operating the vibraphone pedal with your right foot. This might help you to keep your body in balance.
    
    Metal: Metal rib-bone crash, tin can or any other metal sound to produce a crisp penetrating sound. The metalpiece should be placed close to the high ”d” on the vibraphone so you will be able to play with mallet 4 on the “d”(eights notes) and mallets 3 and 2 on the metal (sixteenth notes).
    
    Player 2
    Marimba (5-octave)
    Hi-hat (please see description below)
    Crash cymbal
    
    Hi-hat with ordinary cymbals with an open and ringing sound played with foot. A remote cable hi-hat is recommended and will give you more space to play the marimba.

• About the composer +

  • Søren Monrad was classically trained at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music. In 1978 he became a percussionist with the Royal Danish Orchestra and in 1982 he won the chair as solo timpanist in the same orchestra. At the same time, he also held down jobs with the Collegium Musicum, Royal Danish Brass and others. Add to that a comprehensive international career as a solo percussionist, playing with among others the Royal Danish Orchestra and the Odense Symphony Orchestra.
    
    He has also performed on several CD’s with the above mentioned ensembles on which composers such as Bartok, Crumb, Varese, Koppel and others are represented. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, Denmark.

• Reviews +

  • To come.

• Credits +

  • Front Cover graphics and layout: Kirstine Monrad Have
    Engraving: Ary Golomb
    Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
    Copyright © Edition SVITZER
    www.editionsvitzer.com

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