Stuart Greenbaum Organised Lounge for Percussion Ensemble
Wise Music G. Schirmer Australia Pty Ltd
Sydney, NSW
13 players
1: bass drum, cowbell*
2: cowbell*
3: bongos, tenor drum
4: military drum, tenor drum
5: vibraphone
6: claves
7: 3 temple blocks, small triangle
8: snare drum, maracas
9: piccolo snare drum, snare drum and suspended crash cymbal (thin)
10: tubular bells, sleigh bells
11: glockenspiel, castanets
12: tambourine, tam-tam
13: piano
* tuned almglocken in F# and B can substituted instead of cowbells if available
Instrumentation:
Duration: circa 7 minutes
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Performance notes:
Organised Lounge (2011)
The title of this piece, Organised Lounge, is a play on words in reference to the term ‘organised sound’ coined by French-born composer, Edgard Varèse. Specifically, this piece was created as a companion piece to his famous percussion ensemble work, Ionisation, for 13 players. My work takes the instruments that Varèse utilizes (minus the sirens, slapstick, anvils and lion’s roar, but adding a vibraphone) and the same duration (6 or 7 minutes) with the intention of creating a somewhat different musical result. As the title suggests, the influence of ‘lounge’ music pervades.
The piece was written for Daryl Pratt and the SCM Percussion Ensemble. It was commissioned by The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (with generous support from co-commissioner, Ars Musica Australis), as part of a global project to generate 101 new music compositions over a seven-year period to coincide with the lead up to its centenary in 2015. The premiere performance was given by them on 18 May 2012 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Stuart Greenbaum
