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The Conjugation of the Paramecium

by Timothy Melbinger

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Live performance by percussionists Robert Schulz and Samuel Z. Solomon on an Auros Group for New Music concert at Longy School in Cambridge, MA on on February 28th, ’03,

Although the collaboration for this performance never came together, it is intended to be music for dance. This is a tone poem; Muriel Rukeyser’s short poem is sexual metaphor, and I had hoped to create an evocative and ultimately ecstatic atmosphere, albeit in a quirky cellular world. I chose to utilize the percussion instruments that have the longest sustain, such as the vibraphone with pedal, several kinds of cymbal and wind chimes, and placed the fast-decay percussion instruments in this liquefied environment (this is explicit when one player occasionally drops golf balls into a bucket of water). In order for the paramecium to conjugate (merge together), I used polyrhythms; they are symmetrical and seem to exchange their placement with regard to the beat depending on which rhythm one hears as the beat.

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released January 25, 2013

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Timothy Melbinger

Timothy Melbinger writes contemporary classical music in a variety of genres. A graduate from Brandeis University, he has taught at several schools, including Harvard, Boston U. and, currently, Penn State. His music can be heard on Albany Records, Nine Winds Records and Centaur Records. He is represented by Price Rubin Management and affiliated with BMI. ... more

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