Product Description
"Joyful
Balaphony" (2013) duet (prepared piano) 8 minutes
Joyful Balaphony was composed for French duo Émilie Carcy and Matthieu Millischer for a concert
of duets/triet/quartets by John Pitts at Perpignan Conservatoire's "Festival Prospective 22ème
siècle" 2015.
This duet was
inspired by some traditional music from Burkina Faso in sub-saharan Africa - ensembles of balafons and djembes
(hand-carved xylophones and drums).
The music is very
percussive, obviously, with driving, pounding rhythms. Like a lot of other traditional musics, this
african folk music is modal, and its timbres - the sounds - are both sweet and
also unrefined.
There are some
optional piano preparations which attempt to capture some of the exotic
soundworld.
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