This is a piece for percussion ensemble.<\/p>\n
It has a siren in it, and I like any piece with a good siren in it, whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s George Antheil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ballet M\u00c3\u00a8canique<\/i> or Bob Dylan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Highway 61\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It starts out quite foreboding, quiets down, and then has loud bits interspersed with quiet bits (although not many of those). If the piece has some kind of structure, then I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t discern it. I like it just for its sound and maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all that Var\u00c3\u00a8se intended. <\/p>\n
One weekend last fall I was visiting my nieces and nephew and we were recording some stuff for fun on an 8-track portable studio I had just bought. On one piece, which I called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Crazy Song\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (and it was just that), my 4-year old nephew wanted to overdub his toy drum machine on every single track<\/i>. Of course, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let him do that, because we wanted to use most of the tracks for other weird, mostly vocal things that my nieces (6- and 8-years old) were thinking up. Anyway, I think maybe my nephew was feeling a close artistic kinship with Var\u00c3\u00a8se last weekend, which I, with my more conservative views on music, thwarted. I felt kind of bad about that when I thought about it later and the next time I visit I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to let him do his own recording with 8 tracks of only drums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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