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Initially, I wrote a piece for piano, cello, and double bass. After listening to Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and inspired by his polyrhythmic use of the marimba and metallophone, I arranged my piece for kulintang and glockenspiel. These two percussive instruments provided timbres foreign to me and were a departure from the piano, cello, and double bass. To compensate for a difference in techniques, some parts and phrases were rewritten and restructured.



I wrote the piece with minimalism in mind, letting melodies repeat continuously while gradually changing and attempting to create a polyrhythmic vibe. In Music for 18 Musicians, the metallophone cues the ensemble for a chord change. I borrowed this idea and experimented with the glockenspiel to cue changes in melody.



The kulintang used were of varying registers: a soprano, a tenor, and a bass; and the sounds were recorded and edited using ProTools. Using technology within my composition allowed me to conveniently duplicate melodies for minimalism to take effect, but it also allowed me to experiment with envelopes and sound filters. Most of the tracks (particularly the bass), I filtered through a wet reverb to amplify the hollow timbre of the kulintang while allowing the notes to resonate airily and extend over its natural duration.



Challenges faced included the struggle to record quality tracks and in creating a balanced mix. Patience and resilience were required in recording, throwing away, re-recording phrases in a mundane (but fun) rinse-and-repeat manner. Balancing the tracks also tested patience as dynamics and cuts required meticulous edits.



The choice of title came after completing the piece. I decided to name the piece “To Liberate Wind” due to the light and delicate texture produced by the kulintang and glockenspiel and the reflection of the nature of wind in the natural repetitiveness and iterations of minimalism.

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from Johnathan Law Jun Jie, released March 26, 2019

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Sekolah Ciputra is the largest single campus International Baccalaureate (IB) World School and the only IB school in Surabaya and East Java (Indonesia) to offer all three International Baccalaureate programmes.
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