EQUALISATION

Movement 8 from ‘Adjusting Parameters’

for Alto Saxophone and Track

DOWNLOADS:

• PDF Sax part

• Practise backing track (mp3)

• Performance backing track (wav)

• Demo track (mp3)

Commissioned by Worldwide Consortium of 41 players, led by Erin Royer (Perth, Western Australia)

for:

Alto Saxophone & Backing Track

Duration:

8’30

Style:

Big build in intensity over time, melodic but unsettling, defiant

Technique aspects:

Much use of long notes in high altissimo, some false fingerings/overblowing, quarter tones

Programme note:

Long Journeys of Change - Looking to history to inform the future - determination to continue long-fought fights

Premiere:

Erin Royer - Perth, Australia

Composed:

2022