I've just finished a new piece which came together very quickly for piano and amplified harpsichord. The grouping worked very well for me, as is obvious, by how quickly I wrote the piece, and frankly, how exciting the piece became in the process. It's one of my most visceral and belligerent pieces yet, something like my Acid Bach on steroids, or BlueStrider, but with more timbral color and even more oomph. The piece is extremely barbaric, with evocations of late 80's and early 90's industrial music and recent death metal in its rhythms and use of pounding bass. It's also inspired to a certain degree by the Russian Futurists, Mossolov in particular but with a very new approach to this type of primitivism/barbarism. By the constant use of chromatic clusters, I also approach the bizarre tonalities of my microtonal music.
Marteau-pilon Épouvantable-Implacable for Piano and Amplified Harpsichord - Synthesized Realization
Marteau-pilon Épouvantable-Implacable for Piano and Amplified Harpsichord - Acrobat Score
Marteau-pilon Épouvantable-Implacable for Piano and Amplified Harpsichord - Harpsichord Part
Marteau-pilon Épouvantable-Implacable for Piano and Amplified Harpsichord - Piano Part
The title was inspired by Henri Michaux - from the poem, L'avenir
Le bruit exquis des rivières qui coulent se changeant en forêts de perroquets et de marteaux-pilons.
Quand l'Épouvantable-Implacable se débondant enfin...