Outro, Dub und Fuge

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- Outro, Dub und Fuge explores the meeting point between club-inspired groove and contrapuntal thinking. Conceived as the closing number of the show GeoMetrum (2022) at the Saarland State Theater (Saarländisches Staatstheater), the piece unfolds in two core sections (Dub and Fugue) framed by an “outro” gesture that turns concert hall precision into staged, beat-driven music theatre. Written for Percussion Under Construction.
  
  The opening features swinging flexible corrugated tubes (“Schlauch”) producing a mixture of E and B with a c. 10-second fermata, followed by striking through a water wall (or alternative on a frame/rig). These gestures set the scene before the groove locks in with click and electronics. These tubes should have about 4-5 cm in Diameter, can be found in any hardware store and are typically used as conduit for electric wiring. You have to cut them to the right length so that they produce the right pitch.
  
  The Dub part should be played with a Half-Time Dub feeling; the drum set groove is lightly shuffled. Keep the texture tight and grounded, letting the triplet grid speak clearly. Where marked, “16ths a little less; bring the triplets forward” Prioritize weight on the triplet subdivisions over straight sixteenths. Avoid rudimental phrasing accents unless specifically notated. Group the metal objects and barrels for efficient choreography, ensuring the two fire barrels can be played simultaneously as indicated.
Instrumentation +
- Required Instruments
  - Glockenspiel, tube in e or b
  - Vibraphone, tube in e or b
  - Marimba, tube in e or b, metal ladder (or metal objects)
  - Bass-Marimba (or Rohrofon/PVC-Instrument”), 4 metal sounds (e.g., wheel rims, brake drums), e or b
  - Drum Set, tube in e or b
  - Percussion: 3 temple blocks, cabasa, tam-tam, metal ladder (or metal objects), big daiko (or water barrel), 2 “fire barrels” (played simultaneously)
About the composer +
- Martin Hennecke, born 1987 in Taunton/UK and raised in Cologne/GER, is a German percussionist and composer. Since 2009 he is the associate principal timpanist at Saarland State Theater.
  
  He studied percussion (performance and music education) in Trossingen. As a timpanist and percussionist he and has been invited to work with about 1/5th of the 129 professional orchestras in Germany. Being a long-standing orchestra board member and member of various committees of Unisono - German Music and Orchestra Association - he is actively involved in shaping various aspects of a modern professional orchestra.
  
  With his ensemble “Percussion Under Construction”, he has been creating opportunities to perform the best percussion repertoire through the development of a series of cross-genre full length live shows. Their first album “Locked Down?” has been nominated for the Opus Klassik in four categories.
  
  His list of compositions include several works for solo percussion, percussion ensemble, electronics and orchestra.
  
  Martin Hennecke is an alumni of Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy and the Academy for Theatre and Digitality Dortmund, where he developed concepts and methods on how to combine live music with audience interaction, utilising artificial intelligence.
  
  His project “The (Un)Answered Question - a Data Science Powered Music Experiment“ has been awarded the ”Prize Innovation“ by the German Orchestra Foundation. He has been nominated for the German theatre award DER FAUST 2023.
  
  He is teaching percussion and orchestra studies at University of Music Saar.
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- Photo (Martin Hennecke): Martin Kaufhold
  Engraving: Jin-Wei Huang
  Copyright © Edition SVITZER
  www.editionsvitzer.com
  With support from Koda’s Cultural Funds

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