Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Name: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Brand: John Adams
SKU: 30021V-002
Price: 302.5 USD
Availability: InStock

by John Adams

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Description

The Short Ride in a Fast Machine animation is not just a fantastic concert visual, it is a music education tool that visually explains the internal workings of John Adams’ minimalist orchestral composition. The three music education areas that the animation focuses on are: pulse, ostinato and rhythm. The visual landscape of the Short Ride in a Fast Machine animation was informed and inspired by extensive research carried out by Victor Craven. He incorporates the Hindu Sri Yantra mandala, said to represent the whole of existence. Craven imagines the Sri Yantra coming to life and representing the driving force and source of power for John Adams’ Fast Machine. A second design element, meant to represent the “machine,” is a stylized spaceship influenced by the overall shape of the orchestra and made from the component parts of the orchestral instruments featured in the work. If Craven’s “machine” recalls images of the spaceship from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, you are not mistaken.

Score Details

Synchronized Scores:

PUBLISHER	TITLE	VOICING	PUBLISHER ID
Boosey & Hawkes	Short Ride in a Fast Machine	Band	48019390
Boosey & Hawkes	Short Ride in a Fast Machine	Full Orchestra	RSMS001

Other Score Details:

Original score instrumentation: 2.2picc.2.corA.4(III,IVadlib).3.dbn-4.4.3.1-timp.perc(3):2wdbl/tgl/
xyl/crot/glsp/susp.cym/sizzle cym/SD/pedal BD/large BD/large tam-t/
tamb-2synth(opt)-strings

Product Info

What Is Included in Your Show File:

1. Synchronized film

Both versions of this product include the same film.

Credits

FILM: Victor Craven (2009)

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