Instrument demonstrations and Composer Talks

Arraymusic website media content funded by the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation

All video can be accessed by visiting www.arraymusic.com, entering the site and clicking on the interactive media button. High speed internet is required and you must have at least quicktime 5.0 installed on your computer.

COMPOSERS and STUDIO EVENTS

1. Walter Zimmerman speaks about the rarely performed Geduld und Gelegenheit for piano and cello, played with round bow, performed by guest cellist Paul Widner.

2. Martin Arnold speaks about a sense of 'wonder' and the compositional choices he made in his work for bagpipe, recorder and double bass.

3. Allison Cameron and Dutch native Wiek Hijmans (performing on his Tennessean Gretsch) improvise.

4. Bill Grove and 'the human remains'.

5. View Henry Kucharzyk's electronic composition 'Dexter' or his Arraymusic piece 'Room'.

6. A demonstration by Daniel Olson during the Scratch Festival

DOUBLE BASS: Peter Pavlovsky

1.doublestops 2.Longton Excerpt 2 3.Bottesini Excerpt 4.Harmonics 1 5.Estelle Lemire Excerpt 6.Classic and Jazz 7.Bartok Pizz 8.Harmonic Pizzicatos 9.Pizz chords 10.Ponticello1 11.Ponticello2

PIANO Stephen Clarke 1.Preparing a James Tenney Solo

PERCUSSION Vibraphone Rick Sacks & Drums Blair Mackay

1. Introductory video - An excerpt of James Tenney's Spectrum 1

2. An excerpt of Apollo's Touch by Rodney Sharman - subtle, precisely notated variations in duration

3. Another excerpt of Appollo's Touch - polyrhythms

4. Different types of sticks on the vibraphone

5. An excerpt of Christian Wolff's For Si

TRUMPET Michael White

1. An excerpt of for Si by Christian Wolff 2. Harmonics, the workings of the trumpet

3. All of the trumpet mutes 4. straight and cup mutes (regular and adjustable) 5. More mutes (bucket, plunger, solotone and harmon) 6. the practice mute and two important tips for composers

VIOLIN Rebecca van der Post

1. My Violin 2. Pizzicatos 3. more pizzes 4. Doublestops 5. Sultasto

6. Ponticello and mutes 7. MoreMutes 8. Tremolos 9. Pressure

10. Artificial Harmonics 11. Natural Harmonics 12. recap harmonics 13. Being Clear

ARRAYLIVE CONCERT, a concert from the Glen Gould Auditorium streamed over the internet.

To access the Arraylive concert you paste:

http://www.arraymusic.com/video/ArrayMusic2.wmv

into 'open url' in your windows media player.

Arraymusic Young Composers video documentation can be found at http://www.arraymusic.com/ycwindexflash.html

Tips for windows users having trouble can be found at: http://www.arraymusic.com/video/pchelp.html There is a link to this page on the array site. Enjoy!