Name: This is not a sound (2018)by Jesse Dreyer by Sterkfontein Composers Meeting
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Description: Recorded by Stockholm Saxophone Quartet at the Fifth Sterkfontein Composers Meeting, GUS Stellenbosch, February 2018

One Buzzy Evening explores the gradual transformation of a dramatic percussive dialogue into an indigenous pitch spectrum that is common in the music of the Baganda people of Central Uganda. (CL)
World premiere at the Sterkfontein Composers Meeting 2017, Nirox Foundation, South Africa given by Ivo Nilsson (trombone) and Jonny Axelsson (percussion).

"One Buzzy Evening" for trombone and percussion (2016)by Charles Lwanga

Beginning work on this piece at Nirox in April 2015, I began by positing the following question to myself: what kind of music might the early hominids have made? Then my imagination ran riot… (MB)
South African premiere at the Sterkfontein Composers Meeting 2017, Nirox Foundation, South Africa given by Ivo Nilsson (alto trombone) and Jonny Axelsson (vibraphone).

AltoTrom SCM 2017

"Alto Trombone and Vibe" (2015)by Michael Blake

Recorded by Stockholm Saxophone Quartet at the Fifth Sterkfontein Composers Meeting, GUS Stellenbosch, February 2018

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This is not a sound (2018)by Jesse Dreyer

Sterkfontein Composers Meeting

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