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Timber
Programme to include:
Michael Gordon Timber
Aurora Orchestra plus postgraduate students from the Royal College of Music.
Aurora's percussion section teams up with postgraduate students at the Royal College of Music to give one of the first UK performances of Michael Gordon's hypnotic concert-length work Timber, offering the audience a unique and immersive aural experience. Scored for six amplified wooden Simantras - traditionally a Greek liturgical percussion instrument but in effect planks of 2x4 hardwood cut into graduated lengths - Timber is a complex five-part work which, through a shifting of dynamics and accents from one instrument to the next, produces seamless and unified descending or ascending harmonic patterns.
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