{"id":454,"date":"2016-01-14T13:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/szsolomon.com\/percdb\/?p=454"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:41","slug":"sheil-every-instrument-in-this-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/sheil-every-instrument-in-this-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheil &#8211; Every Instrument In This Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Every Instrument In This Room (2012) \u2013 Geoff Sheil<\/p>\n<p>Instrumentation, 2 players:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marimba<\/li>\n<li>Vibraphone, and mixed percussion<\/li>\n<li>Electronic playback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Composer\u2019s Note:<\/p>\n<p><em>Every Instrument In This Room <\/em>(2012), for percussion and tape, was commissioned by The Current Resonance Duo. The use of fixed electronic media is sometimes restrictive for performers in terms of fixed tempo and synchronization, but in this case I took advantage of this element to write a piece which deals with the overwhelming presence of technology in our lives. Both live performers attempt to evolve and develop while being relentlessly controlled by an autocratic tape part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Geoff Sheil<\/p>\n<p>The tape contains a voice taken from a 1956 informational video, \u201cOn Guard! The Story of SAGE.\u201d\u00a0 SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) was a series of large computers that monitored several radar fields during the cold war. The video is explaining the necessity for the high-tech (for the time) monitoring equipment and labels the constant emanating pulse as \u201cthe heartbeat of the computer.\u201d\u00a0 The program is \u201cconstantly monitoring,\u201d \u201ctesting,\u201d \u201cpulsating,\u201d and most importantly, \u201ccontrolling.\u201d\u00a0 Though it was powerful, the SAGE computer system filled multiple rooms with its mass.\u00a0 The control of technology in our lives today is impossible to ignore. <em>Every Instrument In This Room<\/em> shows a power struggle between humans and their technology. By the end of the piece, the winner is obvious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sarah Brooks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by John Stapleton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Instrument In This Room (2012) \u2013 Geoff Sheil Instrumentation, 2 players: Marimba Vibraphone, and mixed percussion Electronic playback Composer\u2019s Note: Every Instrument In This Room (2012), for percussion and tape, was commissioned by The Current Resonance Duo. The use of fixed electronic media is sometimes restrictive for performers in terms of fixed tempo and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}