The Motzkin Gangan Ensemble "Happy Tengal Day 07/24/07"

The piece is basically an organic rotation of 9 individuals interacting with each other thru
time-restraints.

The rules are simple:
1) Each player plays for 9 minutes only, then stops and waits for another 9 minutes before they resume playing.
2) Each player should play 3 minutes apart.
3) They do this for 90 minutes. However, during the 87th minute, everyone has played four times and to keep the rotation going, everyone will be playing 20 seconds apart from each other during the last 3 minutes and do a full-company crescendo on the last 20 seconds.

The aim of each performer is to collaborate, interlock sound textures with other performers and make the totality of the ensemble’s sound organic as possible. The idea is to make the ensemble sound really organic as sounds evolve, intertwine, interlock, change and move forward every 3 minutes or so.

The ensemble dubbed as “The Motzkin Gangan Ensemble”
[in math, Motzkin numbers enumerate various combinatorial objects -- the number 9 is a Motzkin number; and Gangan is a Japanese onomatopoeia which can mean a clanging sound, or a headache, or a ringing in your ears.]

Tengal
Conceived July 16, 2007.
Revised July 20, 2007.
Performed July 24 2007.

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items are from between 24 Jul 2007 & 25 Jul 2007.