{"product_id":"schwarz-constellations-1","title":"Schwarz-Constellations I-M","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen composing “Constellations I”, I first started to search for interesting new sounds to create on any marimba’s corpus, regardless of its design of construction. While experimenting with different mallets, I also came across a new concept of mallet arrangement. By using a high contrast in hardness in only one pair and mirroring it to the other hand, I could now play both the percussive sounds (which require a very transparent attack) and the marimba plates with both hands, or simultaneously in one hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe piece consists of multiple parts, exploring possibilities of incorporating a “set-up approach” to the instrument. Each part emerges out of a different composing technique, including free atonality, bitonality, serial music or classical harmony, forged together by a pressing atmosphere as well as “rhythmical cadenzas”, guiding to new polyrhythms or rhythm shifts. In the end, the piece resolves in a reharmonized reprise of the intro, using lighter sound effects generated by hands and body to create an echo-like character. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter playing the finished composition to my girlfriend, she visualized the piece as an image of a “technical drawing”, which eventually inspired me to come up with the name “Constellations”. The roman letter I foreshadows the possibility of a potential “answer” to this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Maximilian Wolfgang Schwarz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNumber of players: 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDifficulty: Advanced\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstrumentation: Marimba (5 octave)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Steve Weiss Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43807190908982,"sku":"SCHWARZCONSTELLATIONS","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/3055\/1350\/files\/schwarz-constellations-i-m.jpg?v=1773508389","url":"https:\/\/www.steveweissmusic.com\/products\/schwarz-constellations-1","provider":"Steve Weiss Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}