Rebonds A - Iannis Xenakis

The first video a part of my mini "recording all my recital rep" series. The rest of my recital, as well as a few other videos, will be uploaded in the coming weeks. Please excuse the distortion in the beginning and the end of the video. I still haven't quite figured out how to record loud drums yet.

Enjoy!

About the piece:
Premiered on July 1st, 1988 in Rome by its dedicatee, Sylvio Gualda, Rebonds is an immense abstract ritual. It is a series of movements and hammerings, pure music of increased rhythms. Organized in two pieces of unequal length that can be played A then B or B then A, the work pursues the exploration of the beat as seen in Psappha and taken up again in Aïs (1980), Komboï (1981), Chant des soleils (1983), Idmen B (1985) and Okho (1989). But unlike Psappha, the work is devoid of dramatic dimension. Beat, periodicity, repetition, duplication, recurrence and imitation (accurate or otherwise) are the most obvious signs of change on a greater scale in the musician's writing. According to Makis Solomos, the beat symbolises an overall idea that is stated in three ways: order, which regulates the rhythmic universe through opposition to disorder; minimal periodicity versus aperiodicity; and discontinuity as opposed to continuity of a primary time presumed to be infinitely smooth.

Recorded June 5th, 2017
East Carolina University

Rebonds A
Iannis Xenakis

Daniel Crisp, percussion