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Metal! - Electric Guitar
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1011231 Composed by Matt Schwarz. Classical,Contemporary,Rock,World. Score and parts. ...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1011231 Composed by Matt Schwarz. Classical,Contemporary,Rock,World. Score and parts. 40 pages. Matthew H Schwarz #5720105. Published by Matthew H Schwarz (A0.1011231). A new string quartet in the classical style, with heavy metal and gypsy violin influences. Rather than follow new music trends in classical music, the composer's aim was to create something influenced by the music he likes - Beethoven, Vivaldi, European folk music, and heavy metal. Instead of (to some, unpleasant-sounding) extended techniques, dissonant harmonies, and lack of clear rhythms and melodies, Schwarz has modernized his classical music with driving rhythms and harmony guitar influences of heavy metal, while still attempting to feature elements of true classical music such as counterpoint, development, chamber music dialogue, and forms such as sonata-allegro, scherzo, and rondo. Something you can enjoy at first listen but still get more out of with repeated attention.
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Goldfinger
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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John Barry
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Des McNutty
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Goldfinger
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.977361 Composed by John Barry. Arranged by Des McNutty. Contemporary. Score and parts....
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.977361 Composed by John Barry. Arranged by Des McNutty. Contemporary. Score and parts. 14 pages. Des Press #6857803. Published by Des Press (A0.977361). Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die! It's hard to get more iconic than Sean Connery as James Bond in the 1964 blockbuster, Goldfinger, with Gert Fröbe in the title role.John Barry composed the metal-heavy score and the title song. It was his personal favorite.Barry named Shirley Bassey as the ideal interpretrix for Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's lyrics with her can belto delivery. Nobody could have sung it like her; she had that great dramatic sense. he said. But the name-dropping doesn't end there: The session producer at Abbey Road Studios was George Martin (who produced for The Beatles). Strumming away on guitars are John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, who later became half of rock legends Led Zeppelin. That's a whole lotta awesome! This arrangement for string quartet is a relatively straight-forward idiomatic transcription but transposed to the tonality of the sheet music published in 1964. The recording with Shirley Bassey is a semitone lower. The level is intermediate in a technical sense but please pay attention to style. Try to leave your audience emotionally stirred, not shaken. Enjoy!
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You've Got Another Thing Coming
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Metal/Hard Rock
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Judas Priest
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Jeff Tincher
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You've Got Another Thing Comin
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Jeff Tincher
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.584493 By Judas Priest. By Glenn Raymond Tipton, Kenneth Downing, a...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.584493 By Judas Priest. By Glenn Raymond Tipton, Kenneth Downing, and Robert Halford. Arranged by Jeff Tincher. Metal. Score and parts. 28 pages. Jeff Tincher #5777969. Published by Jeff Tincher (A0.584493). If you want to do some Heavy Metal Rock, this is the song for you. In the original key from Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengence, this song is still performed at Judas Priest's concerts. This arrangement includes the guitar solo and the live ending from their Fuel for Life tour. Duration = 6:06. Visit my websites: http://jefftincher.wixsite.com/sheetmusic, http://jefftincher.wixsite.com/music, https://www.facebook.com/jefftincherpublishing.
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In The End
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Linkin Park
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Paulo Henrique
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In The End
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Paulo Henrique
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String Quartet Cello,Piano,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1363208 By Linkin Park. By Brad Delson, Charles Bennington, J...
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String Quartet Cello,Piano,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1363208 By Linkin Park. By Brad Delson, Charles Bennington, Joe Hahn, Mike Shinoda, and Rob Bourdon. Arranged by Paulo Henrique. Grunge,Hip-Hop,Pop,Rock,Wedding. 9 pages. Paulo Henrique #947692. Published by Paulo Henrique (A0.1363208). In The End, Linkin Park, Arrangement for String Quartet, Score, Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Guitar/Piano Chords, Pop, Rock, Grunge, Rap Rock, Alternative Rock, Rap Metal, Wedding, String Students, Lounge Music.
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Modern Meat
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Animals As Leaders
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James Smith
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Modern Meat
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James Smith
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1118895 By Animals As Leaders. By Tosin Abasi. Arranged by James Sm...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1118895 By Animals As Leaders. By Tosin Abasi. Arranged by James Smith. Chamber,Classical,Rock. 13 pages. James Smith #720299. Published by James Smith (A0.1118895). Originally written for 7-string guitar, Modern Meat is an unusual classical style track produced by the progressive metal band Animals as Leaders. An eclectic piece and ballad for a string quartet concert.View other selections in my catalog at linktr.ee/jamessmithmusic.
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Back In Black
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Rock
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AC/DC
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Dury Loveridge
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Back In Black
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Dury Loveridge
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.752618 By AC/DC. By Angus Young, Brian Johnson, and Malcolm Young. Arranged by Dury Lo...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.752618 By AC/DC. By Angus Young, Brian Johnson, and Malcolm Young. Arranged by Dury Loveridge. Rock. Score and parts. 15 pages. Dury Loveridge #3570345. Published by Dury Loveridge (A0.752618). Ever-present towards the top of any top 100 rock or metal songs, and featured in a surprising number of films from The Muppets and the Smurfs to The Sopranos and Black Hawk Down, this has to be one of the most iconic riffs of all time. This is faithful to the original song in terms of structure and weighting given to the riff, and even includes a (slightly simplified) version of the guitar solo in the central section. There's plenty for every player here, and a lot of unison and paired playing too. Arranged by professional arranger and cellist Dury Loveridge.
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Fear Of The Dark
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Metal/Hard Rock
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Iron Maiden
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Yevhen Martianov
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Fear Of The Dark
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Yevhen Martianov
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940572 By Iron Maiden. By Steve Harris. Arranged by Yevhen Martianov. Metal. Score and...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940572 By Iron Maiden. By Steve Harris. Arranged by Yevhen Martianov. Metal. Score and parts. 17 pages. Yevhen Martianov #4605621. Published by Yevhen Martianov (A0.940572). An arrangement of Iron Maiden song Fear of the dark for the string quartet. The form of the original composition is preserved - including the guitar solos, transcribed for violins. The first in my series of Iron Maiden songs arrangements for string quartet! The digital sheet contains both the score and parts.
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Ghost Of The Navigator
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Metal/Hard Rock
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Iron Maiden
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Yevhen Martianov
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Ghost Of The Navigator
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Yevhen Martianov
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940577 By Iron Maiden. By Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers. Arranged by Yevhen Martiano...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940577 By Iron Maiden. By Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers. Arranged by Yevhen Martianov. Metal. Score and parts. 16 pages. Yevhen Martianov #4781007. Published by Yevhen Martianov (A0.940577). Ghost of the Navigator song by Iron Maiden, arrangement for the string quartet. The arrangement preserves the form of the original composition, including the solo guitar part, transcribed for the violin (that one was the hardest part of the job)). This is my second string quartet of Iron Maiden songs, following my arrangement of the legendary Fear of the dark. This digital music sheet includes the score and individual parts. Hope you'll enjoy it!) For more info please, feel free to contact me via email : jonny.freeman321@gmail.com or Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/jonny.freeman.9
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Wicker Man
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Iron Maiden
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Yevhen Martianov
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Wicker Man
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Yevhen Martianov
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940580 By Iron Maiden. By Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson, and Steve Harris. Arranged by...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940580 By Iron Maiden. By Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson, and Steve Harris. Arranged by Yevhen Martianov. Metal. Score and parts. 19 pages. Yevhen Martianov #4993793. Published by Yevhen Martianov (A0.940580). The Wicker Man song by Iron Maiden, arrangement for the string quartet. The arrangement preserves the form of the original composition, including guitar solo, transcribed for violins. This is my fourth string quartet of Iron Maiden songs, following my arrangements of the Fear of the dark, Ghost of the Navigator and Como Estais Amigos. This digital music sheet includes the score and individual parts. Hope you'll enjoy it!) For more info please, feel free to contact me via email : jonny.freeman321@gmail.com or Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/jonny.freeman.9.
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Out Of The Silent Planet
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Iron Maiden
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Yevhen Martianov
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Out Of The Silent Planet
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Yevhen Martianov
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940579 By Iron Maiden. By Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers. Arranged by Yevhen Martiano...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940579 By Iron Maiden. By Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers. Arranged by Yevhen Martianov. Metal. Score and parts. 17 pages. Yevhen Martianov #5209117. Published by Yevhen Martianov (A0.940579). Out of the silent planet song by Iron Maiden, arrangement for the string quartet. The arrangement does preserve the form of the original composition, excluding guitar solo, which is not really violinish, and few choruses in the end. This is my fifth string quartet of Iron Maiden songs, following my arrangements of the Fear of the dark, Ghost of the Navigator, The Wicker Man and Como Estais Amigos. This digital music sheet includes the score and individual parts. Hope you'll enjoy it!) For more info please, feel free to contact me via email : jonny.freeman321@gmail.com or Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/jonny.freeman.9
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The Trooper
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Iron Maiden
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Yevhen Martianov
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The Trooper
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Yevhen Martianov
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SheetMusicPlus
String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940581 By Iron Maiden. By Steve Harris. Arranged by Yevhen Martianov. Metal. Score and...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940581 By Iron Maiden. By Steve Harris. Arranged by Yevhen Martianov. Metal. Score and parts. 16 pages. Yevhen Martianov #5309559. Published by Yevhen Martianov (A0.940581). The Trooper song by Iron Maiden, arrangement for the string quartet. The arrangement preserves the form of the original composition, including guitar solo, transcribed for violin. This is my seventh string quartet of Iron Maiden songs, following my arrangements of the Fear of the dark, Ghost of the Navigator, The Wicker Man, Out Of The Silent Planet, Rainmaker and Como Estais Amigos. This digital music sheet includes the score and individual parts. Hope you'll enjoy it!) For more info please, feel free to contact me via email : jonny.freeman321@gmail.com or Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/jonny.freeman.9
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Rainmaker
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Iron Maiden
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Yevhen Martianov
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Rainmaker
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Yevhen Martianov
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940578 By Iron Maiden. By Bruce Dickinson, David Murray, and Steven Harris. Arranged b...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.940578 By Iron Maiden. By Bruce Dickinson, David Murray, and Steven Harris. Arranged by Yevhen Martianov. Metal. Score and parts. 17 pages. Yevhen Martianov #5298787. Published by Yevhen Martianov (A0.940578). Rainmaker song by Iron Maiden, arrangement for the string quartet. The arrangement preserves the form of the original composition, including guitar solo, transcribed for violin. This is my sixth string quartet of Iron Maiden songs, following my arrangements of the Fear of the dark, Ghost of the Navigator, The Wicker Man, Out Of The Silent Planet and Como Estais Amigos. This digital music sheet includes the score and individual parts. Hope you'll enjoy it!) For more info please, feel free to contact me via email : jonny.freeman321@gmail.com or Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/jonny.freeman.9
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Supercollider
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Christine Southworth
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Gamelan Elektrika
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Supercollider
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Airplane Ears Music
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1013056 Composed by Christine Southworth. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Score and p...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1013056 Composed by Christine Southworth. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Score and parts. 35 pages. Airplane Ears Music #5802093. Published by Airplane Ears Music (A0.1013056). Super Collider (2010, 18 minutes) Kronos Quartet and electronic gamelanComposed for Kronos Quartet & Gamelan Elektrika. Premiered at Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, August 13, 2010 by Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Elektrika: Evan Ziporyn, kendang; Sean Mannion, kempli; Balaji Mani, ceng-ceng; Laurel Pardue & Sachi Sato, pemade; Katie Puckett & Sam Schmetterer, kantilan; Mark Buckles, Ramon Castillo, Elizabeth Johansen, Julie Strand, reong; Beth Mullins & Po-Chun Wang, pokokGamelan Elektrika is an electronic virtual gamelan designed and developed by Alex Rigopulos (founder and CEO of Harmonix Music, inventors of video games Guitar Hero and Rock Band). The piece is inspired by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN - the largest machine ever built, that's purpose is to change science forever, recreating the beginning of the universe in a tube and proving (or disproving) the theories of particle physics of the last half-century.Particle physics is the unbelievable in pursuit of the unimaginable. To pinpoint the smallest fragments of the universe you have to build the biggest machine in the world. To recreate the first millionths of a second of creation you have to focus energy on an awesome scale. - The GuardianSuper Collider will explore two obverse sound worlds and traditions, the vast culture of the string quartet juxtaposed with the ancient performance methods of a gamelan, unleashed through the unlimited sonic universe of electronics. In our own test-tube experiment, this musical moment of collision will hopefully achieve similarly unparalleled results.What does particle physics have to do with music and art? String theory, which the CERN facility hopes to verify or disprove, presumes that matter itself is the manifestation of resonant vibrations, that the world itself is a universal harmony. This post-modern notion - which Kronos embodies with every performance - itself resonates with the ancient Hindu notion of om, the absolute manifest, which is the basis of Indonesian gamelan. We will bring these two ideas of resonance together by combining Kronos with a gamelan - even a virtual one.The behavior of subatomic particles is probabilistic, group-oriented: the motion of any one particle is unpredictable and unknowable: it's what the group does that counts. This could also be a description of the Balinese gamelan, where individual virtuosity is subsumed to interlocking patterns, composite melodies, the sound of the whole. This is also the spirit of Kronos.When Robert Moog developed his synthesizer in the 1960s, he modeled its functionality on the piano and on western music in general - a single person, sitting at a keyboard. This is one reason why it was popularized by Wendy Carlos' Swtiched On Bach. Gamelan Elek Trika takes a similar approach to the very distinctive musical practices of Indonesia. Like the great gamelans of Bali and Java, Gamelan Elek Trika works as a single unit, played by a complete ensemble. The instruments are played like a gamelan - metallophones, drums, and gongs, playing interlocking patterns - but all are channeled through a central 'brain', a single processing unit which controls their sound, tuning, and timbre. The composer can thus alter the sonic environment globally, not just for one instrument at a time but for the complete ensemble.Super Collider is made possible by generous support from Alex Rigopulos and Sachi Sato, MIT, and the MIT Media Lab. Gamelan Elektrika instruments produced by Alex Rigopulos; sensors, electronics, and interface design by Andrew Boch, Matt Boch, and Laurel Pardue; technical assembly by Stéphanie Bouchard; frame design and assembly by Quentin Kelly.About the ComposerChristine Southworth (b. 1978) is a composer and video artist based in Lexington, Massachusetts, dedicated to creating music born from a cross-pollination of sonic.
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