Samplings – Concerto for marimba and symphonic orchestra – Jean-Luc Rimey-Meille

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Samplings – Concerto for marimba and symphonic orchestra – Jean-Luc Rimey-Meille

Full score and parts.

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Samplings – Concerto for marimba and symphonic orchestra – Jean-Luc Rimey-Meille

Full score and parts.

For sale as an immediate download.

Commissioned by Orchestre Victor-Hugo Franche-Comté
Duration ca 16 min 30

For Damien Petitjean and Jean François Verdier

Sample of fabric, material, color, texture, example … The meaning in French of the word “sample” gives a glimpse of some sound perspectives and gives free rein to an experimentation allowing to cross different aesthetics, which is my usual field of investigation.
The purpose of this music is to take an example – “sample” in English – as a starting point and to confront it with a slightly different aesthetic in order to give it a new light. The sampling technique – pre-recorded sound sample – allows to loop sound extracts that do not necessarily have a duration calibrated on the tempo. I had some pleasure in recreating this notion of “wobbly” by organizing the music around “asymmetrical” or “compound” measures that can give the illusion of an irregular pulse, making the musical time more complex and perhaps, more agitated?
Some references of “samples” present in this concerto, at random and in the disorder: Maurice Ravel, Steve Reich, Pat Metheny, Bélà Bartok, Frank Zappa… learned music, world music, jazz, electro music, rock…

The concerto is organized in three linked parts.
A first moment where several “samples” and several tempi merge, the marimba being a force of proposal then recovering elements emanating from the orchestra to develop its speech. This part concludes with a minimalist and offbeat section, as electro musicians might imagine.
A second, slower moment, in the form of a three-beat choral, where the marimba can reveal a softer sound, giving the illusion of held sounds by using the rolling technique. This choral, supported by the musicians of the orchestra (woodwinds, then strings) ends in a tense and unresolved procession.
The finale is organized in the form of a rondo where the orchestra and the marimba (reminiscent of the African balafon) respond to each other, subject to a “composed” measure where a binary and a ternary pulsation are mixed, on a fast tempo and with the full orchestra.

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Additional information

Difficulty

Difficult

Formation

Concerto, Orchestra

Instrument

Marimba, Orchestra

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