For three or more instruments, includes score and instructions. An interesting graphic score that would work well as music for dance. Duration: ca. 9 minutes.
Print size: Instructions: Legal (8.5 x 14"), Score: Letter (8.5 x 11")
Review from Percussive Notes (2022):
Composed in 1970, this aleatoric work is composed for a minimum of three players. The instrumentation is open to any instrument, but the ones chosen should have at least a high, middle, and low sound. The music is laid out so each page lasts 20 seconds, with time markings given at every five-second interval. The players can perform the pages in any order. The notes include all the necessary information, including suggestions on performances that include dancers.
The performers will need to have some method of lining up the timing of the music, and will need to communicate well on the different sections. In addition to being comfortable with difficult rhythms, performers will also need to have a firm grasp of the sounds available to them from their respective instruments.
“Graphic Mobile” is a good piece for studying the music of the mid-20th century. It would be a great work for advanced undergraduates and graduate students to study that style of music. It would also offer an interesting opportunity for a chamber group of mixed instrument types to perform together. This work not only allows for these opportunities, but also for students to experiment with different sounds, and to use their imaginations when it comes to the execution of those sounds.
—Josh Armstrong
