Clockwork Lemon
General Info
Year of Published: 2007
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:07:00
Instrumentation
Description
This piece is an exploration of rhythmic ratios. Some of these, like 2:3, are standard syncopations but others, such as 5:8, are quite unusual and even sound somewhat 'wrong'. This is the 'lemon' factor. The irony is that in order to capture this essence of 'wrong' they have to be played with clockwork precision, hence the title Clockwork Lemon. Of course, it is also a playful reference to the film, A Clockwork Orange, directed by the late Stanley Kubrick.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
April Revisited - Marimba
Clockwork Lemon - Multiple Percussion
Organised Lounge - Percussion Ensemble
The Building Revealed - Brass & Percussion Ensemble
Sea of Tranquillity - Percussion Quartet
Sonata for Percussion and Piano (Greenbaum) - Multiple Percussion; Piano