Here's a video of me demonstrating something I'm working on at the moment.
It follows on from this notion of "speed" I've been investigating for the last little while. My last post on this subject discussed polyrhythms expressed as ratios. This time, it's about moving between divisions of the beat to give a sense of speeding up/slowing down.
Initially I was planning on notating a bunch of figures and showing how they could put into different divisions, but I've recently been practising Ligeti's etude, 'Fem,' and using it as a vehicle to practice in beat divisions from 3 through to 9.
The excerpt I play in the above video is bars 25 to 30.
A similar thing happens in Scott Tinkler's 'Going Down'
Those are quaver triplets at the start, to give a sense of where the crotchet is......
Have fun.....
Nice clips, and it's wonderful to discover Scott Tinkler at the same time. I've read much but heard little, certainly should be checking this (him) out. Any recommendations?
ReplyDeleteI notice you have 'Speed Pt2' marked down, where's Speed Pt1 please, or was that in the Elliot Carter posts?
Great blog, and all the best in 2011 - Joe
HI Joe,
ReplyDeleteThe first post is from January, 2010:
http://dualismaside.blogspot.com/2010/01/speeds.html
As far as Tinkler goes, good records to possibly start with are:
Live at Bennetts Lane
Sofa King
Dance of Delulian
Backwards
Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you're enjoying it.