Henrik Colding-Jorgensen: Discourse With Time (1996)
Music for a peace
powder magazine
*)
- Danish
title: Diskurs
Med Tiden (Musik
for Fredskrudtmagasin)
Manuscript.
Copyright © H. Colding-Jorgensen 1996
See links at the bottom of the page
For
Flute (C and G alto), Clarinet (Bb and Bb basso), Saxophone (Eb alto and Eb
basso), Trombone, Cello and Percussion **)
"Discourse
With Time"
was commissioned as the musical part of a large installation project, with
installations located outdoors in the terrain and indoors in the vaults of the
old peace powder magazine. The
installations were made by the three artists Jane Balsgaard, Vibeke
Glarbo and Suste Bonnén.
The Discourse makes a web of musical relations
between the various installations located in different places on the rampart
and in the old powder magazine, as the elements of the composition are
performed in the different rooms of the magazine and at the different outdoor
locations. The music begins as a unity in the magazine hall, with the six
musicians starting together in the hall of the magazine. Gradually the
musicians venture individually out in the other vaults and outside on the
terrain of the rampart, ending apart from each other in six different places,
partly out of hearing range of each other. The audience walk around indoors and
outdoors, following some musician or seeking the music, they hear from various
directions. The total duration of the composition is about half an hour.
The first
performance took
place at the opening of the festival Saturday, June 15, 1996, and was repeated
Friday, June 21, and St. Johns Eve, Sunday, June 23, where it was performed
before the traditional St. John's bonfire. Before each performance was played a
fanfare - "Signal Vestvolden" for 4 trumpets - from the balcony of
the magazine.
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*) Peace powder magazine: A magazine for storing gunpowder
during peacetime.
**) Percussion instrumentation: 1
player in all.
Spiral: Triangel - Marimbaphone - 3
Congas - 3 Piatti sospesi
Arm 1: 2 "Clicking frogs" -
Siren whistle
Through
The Looking Glass:
Siren whistle - 2 Flexatones - Gran Cassa ped. - Wu-Han flat gong - 5 Chinese
Temple Blocks - 2 Woodblocks - 2 Cowbells.
Stamp: 2 Chinese Cymbals susp. - 3
small Tom-Toms - 2 Bongos - 2 small Bongos.
Well: Tubular Bells (13 bells between
c'# and e" - see score), Vibraphone, Tam-Tam.
Go to: A short introduction to "Operation
Vestvolden" (Operation Western Rampart). In 1996 Copenhagen was
appointed European Capital of Culture.
Go to: SCORES of the 21 musical
elements,
their instrumentation and approximate starting times and durations, and a map
of their locations on the section of the Western Rampart and in the vaults of
the Peace Powder Magazine.
Go to: Short audio
fragments
of a studio recording, made as a combination of the 21 elements, approximately
coordinated as in a live performance on the project site, but recorded from
different places in one large studio hall. A few photos from the
prémiere and from the magazine and the rampart.
Go to: MAP of the Rampart with canal and
caponniere. The situation of the magazine in the terrain is at the lower
corner to the right.
for 4
trumpets, played from the balcony of the magazine before each of the three
performances of Discourse With Time.
Including
score and audio fragment.