- Program Notes
- This is a virtuoso piece for solo percussionist “Bramputapsel #1”. The listener will have to believe that it is not performed by an ensemble of percussionists, but by one “many-armed and many-legged man” – “percussion Shiva”. The name of the play does not carry a definite meaning, it is a heap of syllables, a phonetic game, absurd. This shows her character. A mad, mad spirit, yearning for grandiose events, makes its endless run.
The piece begins with a big meditation – 7 minutes of listening to the repeated sound of the hi-hat. This is a “prelude”, a setting for listening to the subsequent “fugue” – the main material of the play. The main concept of the piece is to provide the performer with a sense of a real multidimensional (polyphonic) existence. When the hand is separate from the rest of the body can play jazz “bop”. Legs, dancing in an electroshock step, press four pedals, beating off lively fractions. The left hand – the hypostasis of a lyrical gentle hero who has long lived in Bali – plays gongs, metal plates, bells. The fundamental point here is the division of time flows within one person. Disproportionate, maximally knocked down and non-multiple time. After Bramputapsel’s experience, I know how far these ideas can go when given to a thoughtful and creative performer. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the piece was written in collaboration with percussionist Dmitry Shchelkin: not according to the process of composition, but in the degree of openness with which the performer approached a non-trivial and complex task.
- Recording Notes
- «Bramputapsel #1» for percussion solo
Dmitry Shchelkin: hi-hat, pedal bass drum, pedal roto-tom, pedal gong, pedal ogororo plate, thai gongs, Korean gong, small cymbals, crotales, glockenspiel, Java gongs, plate bells, tam-tams
Recorded by: Ruslan Zaipold, 2020, Zaryadye Hall Studio
- Record Label
- Fancymusic
- Performer Credits
- Dmitry Shchelkin
