Westlake-Fabian Theory-M/digital delay OS

"Fabian Theory" for percussion solo & digital delay. AN electronic delay system is employed throughout the piece serving to reproduce the "live" signal 566 milliseconds (about half a second) after it hass been played, thereby building a multi-marimba illusion & creating rhythmic counterpoint against a live performance. "Fabian Theory" was commissioned by Synergy Percussion with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council.

Number of Players: 1
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation:

Player I:Marimba, 3 Toms

Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades. He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake (a prominent Australian musician & principal clarinetist with the Sydney Symphony orchestra 1961-1979) & subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music. Nigel toured Australia & the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe, chamber music groups, fusion bands & orchestras to the cities of London, New York, Rome, Washington, Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Moscow, Hong Kong, Berlin, New Delhi & Singapore to name but a few. His interest in composition dates from the late 1970's when he formed a classical/jazz-rock/world-music fusion band to play original music. During this time he started to receive offers to compose for radio & circus. Commissions for TV & film soon followed.