Automata
General Info
Year of Published: 2022
Publisher: Scottis Music Centre
Cost: £5.75
Instrumentation
Bongos & Nipple Gongs & 2 Tom Toms
Description
In Robot Visions Isaac Asimov wrote: "In a properly educated and automated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanising influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile." The reverse must equally be true. Without proper education and oversight, machines may be used to achieve the antithesis of Asimov's Utopia. In Automata, the human becomes incorporated into the machine, subsumed by its relentless energy, before it finally collapses and dissipates into nothingness. First performance: BBC Young Musicians Percussion Final on 9 July 2022 in the Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden.
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Multiple Percussion
Automata
Etude No. 6 Ritournelle
Oreiad
Vaya Puente
Zonal 1
Vibraphone
Marimba/Xylophone
Snare Drum
Timpani
Ceremonial (Sinclair)
3 Tanzen
Mallet Ensemble
Funk Loops - Vibraphone and 3 Marimba
Shifting Sands (Sinclair) - 8 Players
Time Gentlemen, Please - 4 Players
Percussion Ensemble
Cyclops - 2 Players
With Other Instruments
The Fly - Oboe; Percussion; Electronics