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Torque

for percussion quartet
2 vibraphones, 2 marimbas
Product number: ED 30167
Edition: Score and parts
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Description

At the piano, I listen for how the contortions of the hand can suggest the surges of a body in motion. In my trio music, I’m often evolving rhythmic shapes, shaping gestural patterns with an embodied resonance, and striving to evoke specific qualities of movement with our performed rhythms. Someone once compared us to the Flying Karamazov Brothers, with their coordinated, cyclical, antiphonal actions. I see the work of the rhythm section as a ritual of collective synchrony, aiming above all to generate a dance impulse for everybody in the room.

Torque, a twisting force on a body, seems to appear for the listener at music’s formal boundaries, when one movement type gives way to another. This piece, written for Sō Percussion, invites the percussion quartet to perform transformations that twist the music’s temporal flow, bringing the micro-relational art of the rhythm section into this ensemble format.

– Vijay Iyer

Content

Part I
Part II
Part III
Interlude (played before or after any of the other movements)

More Information

Title:
Torque
for percussion quartet
Edition:
Score and parts
Publisher/Label:
Schott Garden Music, New York
Year of composition:
2018
Duration:
15 ′
World Premiere:
June 22, 2018 · Katonah, NY (USA)
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
So Percussion

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Andrew W. Siegel for Sō Percussion
Title:
Torque
for percussion quartet
Edition:
Score and parts
Publisher/Label:
Schott Garden Music, New York
Year of composition:
2018
Duration:
15 ′
World Premiere:
June 22, 2018 · Katonah, NY (USA)
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
So Percussion

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Andrew W. Siegel for Sō Percussion
Title:
Torque
for percussion quartet
Edition:
Score and parts
Publisher/Label:
Schott Garden Music, New York
Year of composition:
2018
Duration:
15 ′
World Premiere:
June 22, 2018 · Katonah, NY (USA)
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
So Percussion

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Andrew W. Siegel for Sō Percussion

Technical Details

Product number:
ED 30167
ISMN13:
979-0-60001-294-7
ISBN13:
978-1-540-04727-4
Product number:
ED 30167
ISMN13:
979-0-60001-294-7
ISBN13:
978-1-540-04727-4
UPC:
888680921781
Weight:
0,44 kg
Pages:
114
Product number:
ED 30167 Q52238
ISMN13:
979-0-60001-294-7
ISBN13:
978-1-540-04727-4
Pages:
112
File format:
(PDF / 1,21 MB)

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  • Torque
    Orchestra: So Percussion
    April 11, 2019 | Colorado Springs (United States of America) , University of Colorado
  • Torque
    Orchestra: So Percussion
    April 7, 2019 | Berkeley, CA (United States of America) , University of California, Berkeley
  • Torque
    Orchestra: So Percussion
    April 6, 2019 | Santa Barbara, CA (United States of America) , University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Torque
    Orchestra: So Percussion
    February 10, 2019 | Washington, DC (United States of America) , National Gallery of Art
  • Torque
    Orchestra: So Percussion
    January 19, 2019 | Toronto, ON (Canada) , Royal Conservatory of Music
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