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- Holly Harrison
Vibe Rant (2016)
(for flute, clarinet and vibraphone)- Wise Music G. Schirmer Australia Pty Ltd (World)
Programme Note
Vibe Rant not only refers to the abbreviated form of vibraphone: ‘vibes’, but also ‘rant’, which originally comes from the Dutch word ‘ranten’: to talk nonsense, connecting with my interest in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense literature. Together these words form ‘vibrant’, which is the overall mood of the piece. Like its earlier sister trio, Frogstomp (also written for Ensemble Offspring), Vibe Rant sets up a series of juxtapositions, creating a stylistic patchwork that embraces influences from vernacular genres including jazz, pop, hip-hop, dance, rock, and metal. Vibe Rant is written with three main moods in mind: rambunctious and cheeky, pitted against glimpses of a lighter, more ethereal and, perhaps, ‘cuter’ sound-world, and a darker passage inspired by rock and metal elements.
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Reviews
Vibe Rant by Holly Harrison was a piece with wild attitude. Like a conversation, the instrumental lines alternated between communicating with one another and having an individual ‘rant’ so to speak, going on their own trains of thought but then meeting again with one another. By the end of the work, that that become a chaotic conversation, it seemed overwhleming for the flute line, with overblown flute techniques and wild foot stomping, trying to make a scene and be heard and noticed over the ‘nonsense talk’ (well done to Lamorna Nightingale on flute). This received a laugh from the audience!