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| Austin New Music Co-Op
Performance Workshop and Commission, 2006, 2007
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| Crash Ensemble
Resonant Relations, 2005
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| Megafaun
Concert Tour colaboration 2008
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| Octet, Quartet
Pellegrini Quartet, Saarbrücker String Trio, 2002-2003
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| Escalator
Bang On A Can Ensemble, 1995
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| Music for String Orchestra,
Prime Foundation, Groningen, 1988
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| Austin New Music Co-Op
Performance Workshop and Commission, 2006, 2007 |
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ARNOLD DREYBLATT w/ members of the Austin New Music Co-op
THURSDAY MARCH 16th
South by South West Festival, Table of the Elements Showcase, Austin Texas
On March 16th, 2006, a lineup of artists on the TABLE OF
THE ELEMENTS label performed an evening length program of experimental music.
As part of the presentation, composer/performer Arnold Dreyblatt performed alongside
Austin New Music Co-op members Steve Bernal (cello), Brent Fariss (prepared
contrabass), Nick Hennies (drumset), and Travis Weller (violin). For this event,
Dreyblatt created a new piece during a workshop period preceding the concert.
The Austin New Music Co-op has comissioned a new piece from Arnold Dreyblatt in
2007 entitled "Kinship Collapse which was premiered in Austin on October 20. |
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| Crash Ensemble
Resonant Relations, 2005
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| With support from the Irish Arts Council in 2004, I was commissioned by the
Crash Ensemble, Dublin to compose a new work. During a series of intense working
visits over a one and half year period, members the ensemble was introduced
to the Dreyblatt tuning system. The Crash Ensemble is the only group outside
of my own previous ensembles which has learned to perform in my intonation.
The resulting work, "Resonant Relations" was composed for flutes (wooden
and metal), trombone, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, harpsichord, and percussion
(timpanies, snare and bass drum, metal pieces).
The work was first performed at the Sugar Club in Dublin on 27 October 2005
in a program co-curated with Crash artistic director Donnacha Dennehy which
included performances of compositions by my two composition teachers La Monte
Young and Alvin Lucier.
"Resonant Relations" was recorded subsequently in a studio in Dublin
and will be issued along with a second composition on Bang On A Can's cantaloupe
records in 2007. |
 Poster Sugar Club 2005
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| Megafaun
Concert Tour colaboration 2008 |
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| Dreyblatt composed two pieces for Megafaun and toured the USA for concerts in Salem, New York, Boston, Chicago and New York |
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| Octet, Quartet
Pellegrini Quartet, Saarbrücker String Trio, 2002-2003 |
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| In 2002 Dreyblatt recieved a commission from the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
in collaboration with the Saarland Radio to compose an Octet for two string
quartets (with the fourth violin is replaced by a double bass). In 2003, he
rewrote and extended this composition for one string quartet which was played
by the Pellegrini Quartet on two occasions.
Music for 32 Strings, 2002
Octet
Performances: 12.2002 at the "Alten Feuerwache"
in Cooperation with the Saarland Statetheater Saarbrucken, Kammermusik-Reihe,
und dem Saarl. Rundfunk SR2 - Kulturradio
Saarbrucker Strings-Trio und Pellegrini-Quartett Freiburg
"Resonancen", Curator and Organization: Carsten Seiffhart and Bernd
Schulz
Music for 16 Strings, 2003
Quartet
Performances: State Museum Schwerin
Forum New Music, KONZERT IV
September 28, 2003
Curator: Eberhard Blum
Akademie der Künste (Academy of Art), Berlin
As part of the Exhibition: Conceptualisms
September 4, 2003
Curator: Christoph Metztger
Radio Saarland, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, 2002
Pellegrini Quartet, Saarbrücker String Trio
Octet 18:03
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| Escalator
Bang On A Can Ensemble, 1995 |
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Escalator had its beginnings in a duet performance piece with percussionist
Pierre Berthet in Belgium in 1988, and it has been performed in various transformations
by The Orchestra of Excited Strings over the years.
In 1986-87 I began working on a "digital dynamic processing system" for a commission
at "Ars Electronica" in Linz in 1987 and further developed this in a residency
at STEIM in Amsterdam in 1989. This system was triggered with recorded machine
tracks and interacts with acoustic instruments. Its basis are recordings of the
rhythms produced by a number of malfunctioning escalators on the Blvd. Ansbach
in Brussels which I made in 1987.
In this version of Escalator, composed in 1995, I notated repetitive
rhythmic patterns found in these recordings and scored them for cimbalom, prepared
electric guitar and cello, later adding layers of percussion, saxophone and prepared
"excited strings" bass in collaboration with the musicians. Escalator
performed by The Orchestra of Excited Strings as well as the Bang On A Can Allstars.
A CD of "Escalator", recorded by the Bang On A Can Allstars, was released in 2000
on their CD,"Renegade Heaven", Cantaloupe Records.
"Arnold Dreyblatt's Escalator is based on recordings of malfunctioning
escalators. The band would hammer away on one note while the drums pounded with
Beefheartian rhythms. Tense harmonies abruptly gave way to gentler sections while
still maintaining typical Dreyblatt rhythms. "Escalator" sounded less like a malfunctioning
escalators than an insanely mad town orchestra. BOAC should commission more works
by New York City microtonalists like Branca and Dreyblatt." - Juxtoposition Ezine
"Arnold Dreyblatt’s Escalator took drumbeats based on the rhythms of malfunctioning
Belgian escalators and topped them with chords in untempered tunings, sounding
both ramshackle and jaunty." - New York Times |
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| Music for String Orchestra,
Prime Foundation, Groningen, 1988 |
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Dreyblatt was invited by the Prime Foundation in Groningen for a three-day workshop
with a small string orchestra which resulted in a composition which was included
in a program entitled Other Tuning.
The first section utilizes the entire ensemble sustaining in just intonation,
progressing slowly through the first eleven odd overtones, in each step contrasted
with the added inclusion of the fundamental. In the second section a quartet performs
in a bowing technique which mirrors the timbre of the struck excited string basses. |
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