BOLLON
Your voice out of the lamb for recorders and small orchestra
Full Score
FABRICE BOLLON
Your voice out of the lamb
for recorders and small orchestra
Orchestra
3 trumpets
3 trombones
harp keyboard
percussion (3 players: marimba, vibraphone, drumset)
6 violoncelli
4 double basses
solo recorder (sub-bass, bass, tenor, alto, sopranino) effectpedals: reverb, delay, loop, pitch shifter
Duration: ca 18-19’
Layout (if possible all instruments on one level): Drumset Trumpets Trombones
Keyboard
Marimba Vibraphone
Accidentals affect only the note but for the whole bar.
Note for the keyboard player
The names of the different sounds of the keyboard refer to a demo-cd supplied with the orchestral material. Each instrumentalist should recreate these sounds on his own keyboard. Most of them are standard for everygood keyboard.The loudspeaker should be close to the instrument. The amplification of the keyboard should allow a good balance with the rest of the orchestra: the keyboard is part of the orchestra.If possible, the “chorus-sound” should use 2 loudspeakers placed behind the orchestra, and much reverb. Eventually, this could mean to use two different instruments.
Note for the solo recorder
Pedals: delay, and reverb: the duration of the effect is notated in the score and should be precise. Not any longer! It is always in relation with the main tempo, which in that case should be also precise. Of course, the conductor should conduct with enough flexibility, and if necessary reacting on the effect with very small rubati.
Pitch shifter: the notated intervals are semi tones. The proportional notation 50% means: both tones, the original and the pitched one should be as loud.
Amplification should be very soft, only where necessary. Just for the sub-bass and bass, the amplification should be strong. If possible I recommend to have 2 different amplifications: the sub-bass recorder (and thus the loop) should sound through different loudspeakers on the stage, behind the orchestra and within the audience, giving the impression of ‘surround sound’
But of course, it is possible to play the whole part with only one loudspeaker placed close to the soloist.
Your voice out of the lamb for recorders and small orchestra
written for Michala Petri and the Odense Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by Elisabet Selin /Edition Borup Jørgensen.
The title of this work refers to the album by the band Genesis, ‘the lamb lies down on broadway’. But this is not a set of variations on those pop songs, and of course it is not pop music. I have chosen this album for very personal reasons, and have sometimes made reference to it in this piece. I have quoted motives from the album, although none of these is copied completely – no direct quotations. Rather, each motiv is transformed into my own language, but perhaps recognizable to those who are familiar with the album. As the title suggests, the album is in the background, although my present work is also a homage to it. Maybe, because in its structure this long and complex album comes very close to classical music, somehow this work follows a concurrent but opposed path to pop music, using the recorder as a kind of vocalist. It is more that this kind of music that pretends to be ‘only music’, free from dogma or scholarly distractions, open and free, direct but not cheap, complex but not tortured, resonates with my view that there are actually no barriers but only MUSIC. I hope this work expresses this.
I want to thank Michala for this idea of asking me a concerto, Lars efficiency and kindness, and Elisabet’s generosity.
Fabrice Bollon
"Perte,epensandoate,questoènato,ediventatote."
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