Small Talk

Instrumentation:

multi-percussion solo for triangle, large glass vase, billiard ball, singing bowl, tom-tom, and guiro fork

Duration: 4‘30”

Premiered by Oscar Tudge: November 16 2022 (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Australia)

Small Talk uses braille text notation to craft a work from six sounds, using the braille combination of a letter to dictate the instrumentation of each of five sections. At times being almost inaudibly quiet, the piece seeks to draw the audience in to the display of unique and singular sounds.

Program notes:

Polygraph 2

Name

First Name

Last Name

Email

Subject

Message

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