Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall
for 11 players and loudspeakers 2023
Full Score
Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall Commissioned by Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, impuls. Verein zur Vermittlung zeitgenössischer Musik and Gaudeamus Festival in the frame of Ulysses Network supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. e �rst performance was July 27, 2023 during impuls . festival in Graz performed by IEMA-Ensemble 2022/23. Also on September 8, 2023 in Utrecht during the Gaudeamus Festival and lateron in Frankfurt on September 19
INSTRUMENTATION
CopyrightbyG.Ricordi&Co./Forperusalonly
Version 25.06.2023
Sy. 9177/01
ISMN 979-0-2042-9177-9
Flute / Piccolo
Oboe
Clarinet in B b
Trumpet in B b Trombone
Percussion
Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Triangle, Mark Tree, undersheet or under Tube, Toy Siren, Duck Call, Cymbals, Swanee Whistle, Aztec Death Whistle, Flexatone, Small Hand Ratchet, Xylophone
Keyboards
(1 88 keyboard - patches can be toggled from unused n otes below E1 Reaper Session Included.
SAMPLES CONGLOM track = outputs 1 & 2 KEYS SYNTH CONLOM track = outputs 3 & 4 - this should go to front speakers as well as onstage monitor for keys player)
CLICK CONGLOM = output 5 to headphones for conductor)
Violin Viola Violoncello Contrabass
Loudspeakers
(Ideally all instruments should be ampli�ed and mixed live with a studio/ production sensativity to balence, this piece can also be performed without ampli�cation)
PERFORMANCE NOTES
All things should be heard all the time.
e �rst 4 mins are on click as triggered by Keyboard. Aer that all samples are work as loops or single shot triggers and can allow for slight variation in tempo.
e conductor's preperation should include by listening to mock-ups / previous recordings.
As part of a rehearsal for acoustic insturments it is necassary to make small nuanced decisions about balence to �t the room/ players. So to shoudl the keyboard patches and sample patches be subject to a a slight change of dynamic in the rehearsals.
Rhythms should always be interpreted with strict and uncompromising metric accuracy, as if in a big band (or other rhythmic-music context).
Playful inconsistancies and ornamentation in articulation, tone, intonation, expression, vibrato, dynamics etc. are warmly encouraged. It would please the composer very much if each part was earnestly personalised in these details beyond what is written on the page, as if playing in a band. Particularly this value of play and explorative creativity can be applied to the tone/sound/timbre of the string section.
A careful balance should be achieved where the loudspeakers are as loud as possible without obliterating the acoustic sounds. e balance of sounds should be constructed from the perspective of the listener and include all sounds from speakers and acoustic instruments equally.
Duration: approx. 9 minutes
Copyright © 2023 by G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin
Score is in transposing pitch
b
b
Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall
(Kite n Finger run)
Alex Paxton
Clarinet in B
Trumpet in B
(Glockenspiel)
* is fast writing with brass should be very percussive. High resistance. Violent shis in air stream.
con sord. (metal straight)
* is fast brass writing should be very percussive. High resistance. Violent shis in air stream.
* is fast brass writing should be very percussive. High resistance. Violent shis in air stream. con sord. (metal straight)
Vibraphone
con sord. (pixie and plunger) ad lib. l.h., as vocal as poss. wah + o > wawp +
� dirty, timbrally explorative
Keyboard Patch 2
(is stave needs to be played with a special focus on rythmic accuracy. Bottom notes play drum groove material, middle notes play bassline in unison with Bass & trombone)
Ad lib. Also sing this line you play. Until bar 287. Not "trained" voice. Natrual voice, slightly nasel. As if singing to your self but louder. Use any syllables that feel good.
Ad lib. Also sing this line you play. untill 330 Not "trained" voice. Natrual voice, slightly nasel. As if singing to your self but louder. Use any syllables that feel good.
Improvise on swanee whistle. Very busy. Inspired by meldoic material from viola melody 336 &
Improvise on swanee whistle. Very busy. Inspired by meldoic material from viola melody &
Improvise on swanee whistle. Very busy. Inspired by meldoic material from viola melody &
Improvise on swanee whistle. Very busy. Inspired by meldoic material from viola melody ?
Improvise on swanee whistle. Very busy. Inspired by meldoic material from viola melody /
Keyboard Patch 3 solo (sounds 1 octave lower)
&
p with viola p with keys