Teh Pwnin Machine

Tracy Freeze

General Info

Year: 2012
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player I: Crotales
Player II: Vibraphone
Player III: Bull Roarers
Player IV: Glass Bottles
Player V: Metal Pipes
Player VI: Low Drums - Floor Toms
Player VII: Bass Drums

Program Notes

for the 2012 ESU Music Day Percussion Section.

Teh Pwnin Machine was written for the 2012 ESU Music Day Percussion Section. This is a day where as many as 40-50 musicians come together and perform chamber music with each other. This piece was designed for the high school and middle school students to perform for the closing concert. The piece is written to allow multiple players playing a variety of instruments on each of the mallet and percussion parts.

Teh Pwnin Machine is an exploration of sound using low drums, and shimmering high dissonance. The non-traditional method and instruments allow the students the opportunity to explore the colors of these instruments while trying to make a soundscape ambience for the piece to unfold.

Recent Performances

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

1337 Machine - Percussion Nonet: min. of 9 or more players
Anxiety (Freeze) - Percussion Ensemble
Extemporanimus - Indeterminante Instrumentation
Extemporanimus II - Inderterminate Instrumentation
Litter Liter Lieder - Percussion Sextet: 2 Liter Bottles; min. of 6 or more players
Percussion Symphony No. 1 - Percussion Quartet
Praesepe M.44 - Percussion Sextet: min. of 6 or more Players
Quartet For Percussion - Free vs Controlled - Percussion Quartet
Rhapsody for Timpani - Timpani
Sacrifice of Odin - Percussion Ensemble (13)
Stompageddon - Percussion Quintet: Push Brooms; min of 5 or more players
Stompapotamus - Percussion Quintet: Push Brooms; min of 5 or more players
Taiko Machine - Percussion Octet: min. of 8 or more players
Teh Pwnin Machine - Percussion Nonet: min. of 9 or more players
Thor and Jörmungandr - Percussion Octet: min. of 8 or more players
Trapezium Cluster - Timpani, Percussion Nonet: min. of 9 or more players
Trenches - Percussion Ensemble (10): min. of 10 or more players
Water and Ice - Percussion Nonet: min. of 9 or more players

Transcriptions

Adagio for Strings - Percussion Quintet; Mallet Ensemble; Doubling preferred
Ave Maria from All Night Vigil - Percussion Quartet; Mallet Ensemble; Doubling preferred
Bolero a'la Zappa - Percussion Sextet; Jazz Band
Der Doppleganger - Marimba - Voice (1 player)
Fantasy On Japanese Woodprints, op.211 (Percussion Ensemble) - Xylophone; Percussion Nonet
Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana - Percussion Sextet; Mallet Ensemble
La Messe de Nostre-Dame - Percussion Quartet, Mallet Ensemble; Doubling preferred
Le Nozze di Figaro - Overture - Percussion Quintet, Mallet Ensemble
Numc Dimittis from All Night Vigil - Percussion Quintet or Sextet; Mallet Ensemble; Doubling preferred
Concerto pour batterie et petit orchestre - Multiple Percussion; Percussion Sextet, Mallet Ensemble
Polka from The Golden Age - Percussion Quartet; Mallet Ensemble
Senegal Calling - Percussion Ensemble (14); optional Jazz Band
Siete canciones populares españolas - Marimba; Soprano Voice
Time After Time - Percussion Duo, Marimba/Vibes Duo
Toccata and Fugue - Percussion Quintet; Mallet Ensemble