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Tendril and Nebula

for chamber ensemble

Year:  1999   ·  Duration:  14m
Instrumentation:  clarinet, bass clarinet, bass trombone, percussion, cello, double bass

Year:  1999
Duration:  14m
Instrumentation  clarinet, bass clarinet, ba...

Composer:   Philip Brownlee

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About

The title suggests a mixed metaphor, the organic alongside the astronomical. Although the words arrived late in the process, they go some way towards describing the forces at work. Propelled by small-scale rhythmic articulation, strands reach out towards points, tracing delicate spirals through space. Alongside these sit diffuse clouds of material, out of which new constellations take shape.

There is above all a concern with the intimate connection between the gestures of performance and their sonic result. The instruments act as filters which shape raw sound in a manner reminiscent of the procedures of the electroacoustic studio. There is a constant tension between organic direction and quite arbitrary frameworks, a mesh of non-congruent processes operating on different structural levels. In front of this, the intricate detail of the audible surface attempts to impose perceptual order on the precariously balanced network of forces.


Commissioned note

Commissioned by 175 East, with funding from Creative New Zealand


Performance history

05 Sep 1999: Performed by 175 East: Gretchen La Roche (clarinet), Katherine Hebley (cello), Lenny Sakofsky (percussion), Daniel Stabler (bass), Tim Sutton (trombone), Andrew Uren (bass clarinet), conducted by Hamish McKeich

11 Sep 1999: Performed by 175 East

08 Dec 2013: 175 East @ Q Theatre

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