Dusting the Connecting Link
General Info
Year: 1995
Duration: c. 20:00 - 30:00 (Performers Choice)
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Dave Hollinden Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $20.00 | Score Only - $0.00
Movements
Instrumentation
Multiple Percussion: large tom tom, 2 medium tom toms, 2 small drums, log drum, temple block, wood block, sleigh bells, cowbell, vibra-slap, 2 almglocken (tuned a m7th apart), auto spring, triangle, bell plate, tone bar, crash cymbal, Chinese cymbal, sizzle cymbal
Program Notes
Dusting the Connecting Link is a hybrid mixture of notated music and graphic notation allowing for performer choice. Short rhythmic fragments are spatially arranged in a large graphic shape. This shape contains three pathways, each being distinct in terms of it's instrumentation, and the player chooses his or her own route through the shape. There are specific instructions about how to do this, but the overall result is a piece whose form and duration are chosen by the performer.
The inspiration for Dusting the Connecting Link came from the following excerpts by Carlos Casteneda:
I had entered into a wondrous state of awareness! I had such clarity of mind that I was able to comprehend and assimilate everything don Juan was saying. He said that in the universe there is an unmeasurable, indescribable force which sorcerers call intent,and that absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link. Sorcerers, or warriors, as he called them, were concerned with discussing, understanding, and employing that link. They were especially concerned with cleaning it of the numbing effects brought about by the ordinary concerns of their everyday lives.
Don Juan seemed to recognize my state of mind. He suggested that I relax and listen. He told me his next story was about the process of bringing an apprentice into the realm of the spirit, a process sorcerers called the trickery of the spirit, or dusting the connecting link to intent.
These excerpts are from "The Power of Silence" by Carlos Castaneda, 1987
Errata
Awards
Commercial Discography
Slender Beams, by Andrew Spencer and Dave Hollinden.[1]
Recent Performances
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
A Different Drummer - Multiple Percussion
Alchemy - Percussion Duo
Boundary Conditions - Multiple Percussion; String Quartet
Cold Pressed - Multiple Percussion
Dusting the Connecting Link - Multiple Percussion
Flux - Marimba; Flute; Clarinet; Alto Saxophone
Immersion - Percussion Quartet; Saxophone Quartet
In Time to Come - Marimba; Alto Saxophone
Lead - Multiple Percussion; Piano
Of Wind and Water - Marimba
Percussion Quartet No. 2 (Hollinden) - Percussion Quartet
Platinum - Multiple Percussion; Piano
Reckless - Percussion Octet
Release (Hollinden) - Percussion Octet
Six Ideas for Snare, Bass, and Cymbal - Multiple Percussion
Slender Beams of Solid Rhythm - Multiple Percussion
Surface Tension - Percussion Duo
The Whole Toy Laid Down - Percussion Quartet
what clarity? (with perc. ens. version) - Multiple Percussion; Percussion Ensemble (11)
what clarity? (with strings version) - Multiple Percussion; Orchestra
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