Triangle - Ciaran Frame / Claire Edwardes (percussion)
About
This piece uses dampening to explore the metallic textures of a triangle. It also explores these textures through dynamics, repetition and beater positioning. The score has no text. Instead the performer has to interpret the graphic notation much like a puzzle, revealing where and how the performer dampens and plays.
Technique Explanation & Demonstration
This video describes different ways to use the triangle beater, different amounts of 'dampening', and different places for striking the triangle.
Activities by Ciaran Frame
Listening
Alvin Lucier - Streetcar for the Orchestra performed by Claire Edwardes
About Ciaran
Ciaran Frame is a young composer, media artist and educator currently based in Melbourne. Having completed his honours at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Ciaran is passionate about cross-disciplinary collaboration and education, seeking a place in the world of data, technology and music. He has found a home in interactive and generative computer music, creating everything from sonification toolboxes to make music out of plants, to performance works where players must purchase their musical material. More recently, he has undertaken a residency in the Arctic Circle, where he has set out to explore the importance of music within other disciplines through collaboration with scientists. All the while, Ciaran is attempting to synthesise the rich history of contemporary classical music with a broader application of methodologies typically associated with nonmusical traditions such as Biology. He strongly believes in preparing a sustainable future of interested, informed young musicians - a belief that has formed the basis of the creation of the midge synthesiser.
About Claire
Internationally acclaimed Australian percussion soloist, chamber musician and artistic director of Ensemble Offspring, Claire Edwardes has been described by the press as a ‘sorceress of percussion’. In 2013 she was granted a prestigious Australia Council Music Fellowship, she is the first person to take home the APRA AMCOS Art Music Award for Excellence by an Individual (2016, 2012, 2007) three times and is the most recent percussionist to win the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award (1999). From 1999-2006 Claire was resident in the Netherlands where she developed a successful international career as a percussion soloist and revered chamber musician. Since returning to Australia 10 years ago she has been instrumental in leading, developing, and stimulating the art music scene back at home.