Surround Sound Soren Hyldgaard

Titel / Title: Surround Sound
Herausgeber / Publisher: Amstel Music
Instrumentation: Concert Band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: The Music of Svren Hyldgaard
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2002
ISMN: 9790035013137

'Surround Sound' bedeutet 'Klang von allen Seiten'. Dem Komponisten dieses außergewöhnlichen Werkes zufolge soll diese Komposition nicht nur gehört, sondern vielmehr erfahren werden. Das Publikum wird fühlen, wie die Trommeln wirbeln und die Trompetensignale durch die Halle fliegen, wie ein Ball, der hin und her geworfen wird.

Performance Suggestions:
In order to obtain the ‘Surround Sound’ intended for this composition, the following off-stage directions should ideally be followed and if necessary adjusted to fit the settings of the concert hall in question:
* One cornet/trumpet player and one percussionist, playing the snare drum, perform from a balcony or in a hall corridor behind the audience. Alternatively, the performer will be standing in the aisle of the extreme back row
* One cornet/trumpet player performs from a backstage position (or at the side of the stage)

The opening section of Surround Sound is to be performed on the basis of the players knowing the offset tempo by heart; however, the conductor should be cueing the on-stage bass drum & cymbals. The most effective “surround sound” gimmick is accomplished by minutely obeying and almost exaggerating the crescendo - decrescendo nuances ‘cross fading’ between the two ends of the concert hall.