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Guarded Hearts (2012)
for percussion (two performers)
This is a small test piece for certain ideas about structure and development. I was very happy to compose another piece for
two drums. Before, I only had one solid work for drums to my credit, a set of simple canons from 2008. Although I'm fond of
those, I wanted to write more for percussion, and in particular something much more complex for drums. This piece involves
one or two drums, a shaker, and a triangle or a bell.
The drum(s) here live as two creatures: one that evolves slowly, and one that evolves quickly. The slow animal is a pattern of
seven bars, while the fast animal does not have a fixed form at first. They both depend on the same source of food – rhythm
patterns made by the shaker. Time passes, and while the slow animal goes through its slow evolution, the fast animal learns
from its surroundings, and when a crisis strikes, it easily takes over the slow creature's territory. The slow animal eventually
becomes extinct. Its shell is used by the new version of the fast animal, which is an evolutionary deadend: no development, just
three stages that repeat over and over. The ecosystem in action here involves more than these entities, and a single other
creature may be glimpsed in the rare double bell patterns scattered through the piece.
PDF score
Audio:
– MP3