Twine

Commissioned by Danish Radio

Orchestration
mba+xyl
Duration14 min

CategoryPercussion Ensemble

Composer
Rolf Wallin

Performances
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Programme Note

Two streams of sound, both emerging from the same physical substance (wood), but still slightly different: the bright and hard versus the dark and soft. Two streams twisting and twining, separating and merging, opposing and caressing. Two streams living their own separate lives, but still influenced by the other.

Programme note © 1995 Rolf Wallin

Media

Twine

Reviews

Nothing said - just two men on opposite sides of a marimba and a xylophone, back to back, at right of an empty stage. Two streams of sound, Xylophone strident, the marimba softer. It was almost as though they were talking to each other - one plays a phrase, the other answers.

Phil Hewitt, Sussex World

26th January 2023