{"id":296,"date":"2015-11-09T19:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T01:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/?page_id=296"},"modified":"2019-12-14T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T20:43:22","slug":"average-bureaucrats-percussion-trio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/?page_id=296","title":{"rendered":"Average Bureaucrats | percussion trio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Average Bureaucrats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">for percussion trio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2011-12<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioned by Line Upon Line Percussion \/\/ premiered November 2, 2011; Austin, Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instrumentation:\u00a0vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, crotales, pitched pipes, brake drum, finger cymbals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duration: 18 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I. Processed Moods<\/p>\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.setup(\"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-audio-player\/player\/player.swf\", { width: 290 });<\/script><p id=\"audioplayer_1367\"><audio controls><source src=\"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/media\/processmoods.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p><p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1367\", {soundFile: \"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/media\/processmoods.mp3\",  titles: \"Pierce Gradone | composer\", autostart: \"no\", loop: \"no\", animation: \"yes\", remaining: \"yes\", noinfo: \"yes\", initialvolume: \"70\", buffer: \"5\", encode: \"no\", checkpolicy: \"no\", rtl: \"no\", transparentpagebg: \"yes\", bg: \"E5E5E5\", leftbg: \"CCCCCC\", lefticon: \"333333\", voltrack: \"F2F2F2\", volslider: \"666666\", rightbg: \"B4B4B4\", rightbghover: \"999999\", righticon: \"333333\", righticonhover: \"FFFFFF\", loader: \"009900\", track: \"FFFFFF\", tracker: \"DDDDDD\", border: \"CCCCCC\", skip: \"666666\", text: \"333333\"});<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>II. Sufficiently Heartfelt Adagio<\/p>\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.setup(\"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-audio-player\/player\/player.swf\", { width: 290 });<\/script><p id=\"audioplayer_6195\"><audio controls><source src=\"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/media\/sufficientlyheartfelt.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p><p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_6195\", {soundFile: \"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/media\/sufficientlyheartfelt.mp3\",  titles: \"Pierce Gradone | composer\", autostart: \"no\", loop: \"no\", animation: \"yes\", remaining: \"yes\", noinfo: \"yes\", initialvolume: \"70\", buffer: \"5\", encode: \"no\", checkpolicy: \"no\", rtl: \"no\", transparentpagebg: \"yes\", bg: \"E5E5E5\", leftbg: \"CCCCCC\", lefticon: \"333333\", voltrack: \"F2F2F2\", volslider: \"666666\", rightbg: \"B4B4B4\", rightbghover: \"999999\", righticon: \"333333\", righticonhover: \"FFFFFF\", loader: \"009900\", track: \"FFFFFF\", tracker: \"DDDDDD\", border: \"CCCCCC\", skip: \"666666\", text: \"333333\"});<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>III. Approved Counterpoint<\/p>\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.setup(\"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-audio-player\/player\/player.swf\", { width: 290 });<\/script><p id=\"audioplayer_4714\"><audio controls><source src=\"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/media\/approved.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p><p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_4714\", {soundFile: \"http:\/\/piercegradone.com\/media\/approved.mp3\",  titles: \"Pierce Gradone | composer\", autostart: \"no\", loop: \"no\", animation: \"yes\", remaining: \"yes\", noinfo: \"yes\", initialvolume: \"70\", buffer: \"5\", encode: \"no\", checkpolicy: \"no\", rtl: \"no\", transparentpagebg: \"yes\", bg: \"E5E5E5\", leftbg: \"CCCCCC\", lefticon: \"333333\", voltrack: \"F2F2F2\", volslider: \"666666\", rightbg: \"B4B4B4\", rightbghover: \"999999\", righticon: \"333333\", righticonhover: \"FFFFFF\", loader: \"009900\", track: \"FFFFFF\", tracker: \"DDDDDD\", border: \"CCCCCC\", skip: \"666666\", text: \"333333\"});<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Program Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Average Bureaucrats (2011) was inspired by the eponymous painting by Salvador Dal\u00ed, which depicts a bent, defeated figure in a deserted landscape peppered with odd, seemingly unrelated objects. The music, in turn, reflects this depiction as small motives and patterns are presented as random objects surrounding a barren textural plain. As its title implies, this piece also explores the fruitless labors of navigating a massive, unrelenting bureaucracy, much like those depicted in Kafka\u2019s das Schloss (The Castle) and Terry Gilliam\u2019s Brazil. In these works, the bleak and sinister reality of a labyrinthine social structure is masked by a seemingly benign indifference that seems to inevitably lead to madness or death, always preferring euphemisms and meaningless adjectives to describe objects that may reveal the hideous face of an arbitrary dictatorship.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piercegradone.com\/PDF\/abperusal.pdf\">Perusal Score<\/a> <script src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.js\" async=\"true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/p><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average Bureaucrats for percussion trio 2011-12 Commissioned by Line Upon Line Percussion \/\/ premiered November 2, 2011; Austin, Texas Instrumentation:\u00a0vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, crotales, pitched pipes, brake drum, finger cymbals Duration: 18 minutes I. Processed Moods II. 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