SaxRep

Fourth year

Gorge

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Composed
1994
Instrumentation
Alto Saxophone, Unaccompanied
Publisher
Reed Music
Duration
approximately 8 minutes

Written on a houseboat holiday in the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, Australia, where playing in the narrow gorges produced echoes off the cliffs. The saxophonist recreates those echoes with strictly terraced dynamics; Cockcroft calls it his first attempt to make electronic sounds acoustically.

Full program note and score: Reed Music

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