Duet for Vibes (2001, rev. 2019)

Ron Coulter

General Info

Year: 2001 and revised in 2019
Duration: c. 7:01
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Kreating SounD
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player I: Vibraphone
Player II: Vibraphone

Program Notes

Duet for Vibes (2001, rev. 2019) has an imaginative, yet practical title. The work is a series of six vignettes, or dreamscapes strung together, some with development, some that simply are, each complete, even if in their incompleteness.

The composition presents extremes in many aspects: technical ability, tempo, dynamics (especially), style, and sound production; yet is a cohesive sound world bound by the musical materials. Recorded by Filament (DeLane Doyle & Aaron Gochberg).

Commercial Discography

Toiling in Obscurity (the second volume of percussion chamber music by Ron Coulter) https://roncoulter.bandcamp.com/album/toiling-in-obscurity

Recent Performances

Wheeler Concert Hall, Casper College (Casper, WY), March 27, 2021 Performers: Filament (DeLane Doyle & Aaron Gochberg)

Altgeld Hall, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, April 8, 2009 (World Premiere) Performers: Southern Illinois University Carbondale Percussion Group

To submit a performance please join the TEK Percussion Database

= Conga Works

Jenks (1998) – Conga Trio
Los Seis Manos (1999) – Conga Trio

Vibraphone Works

Opportunity Lost (2006) - Solo
Vibolet (2008) - Solo
Duet for Vibes (2001, rev. 2019) – Duet for Vibraphones
RE: the destruction of a life by a precious little flower (2009) – Solo Vibraphone & Live Electronic Processing
Disappointment in the smallness of humanity. (2015) – Solo Vibraphone & Live Electronics
Persistent Reflection on Opportunity Lost (2011) – Solo Bowed Vibraphone & Live Electronic Processing

Marimba Works

Marimba Peace (2006) – Marimba Quintet
Repose for Two Marimbas (2007) – Marimba Duo
7_4-Simplex (2008) – Marimba Solo
Marimba Trio No. 1 (Amadinda Meditation) (2007-08) – Marimba Trio

Multiple Percussion Works

Unstack/Re-Stack (2018) – solo for percussion

Snare Drum Works

System No. 3 – Elaborations on Pendulum Music (2019) – Solo for 2 Snare Drums & 3 Mini-Guitar Amps with Hanging Microphones
CODE-20.vi (2020) – Solo for 2 Snare Drums & 1 Radio
System No. 2 (2018) – Solo Snare Drum & Chinese Cymbal
Areas 1: Voices…a dead person’s things (2016) – Solo for 2 Snare Drums & Controlled Feedback
System No. 1 (2015) – Solo Prepared Snare Drum

Elementary Percussion Ensemble Works

Spricey (2020) – Percussion Duet (1 of 3)
Barky’s Demise (2020) – Percussion Trio (1 of 3)
Looka’ Choo (choo)! (2021/2025) – Percussion Trio (2 of 3)
Bim! Bim! Bim! (2025) – Percussion Trio (3 of 3)
bizzy lil’ buzzle (2019) – Percussion Quintet (1 of 3)
GO! Squirrel! (2019) – Percussion Quintet (2 of 3)
March for Bill & Johanna (2020) – Percussion Quintet (3 of 3)

Percussion Ensemble Works

more metal than you(rs) (2020) – Percussion Duet
Repression (2001) – percussion quartet
…the tiny rooms of starvation and madness. (2018) – Percussion Octet
essence de clapping music (2020) – 1 or 2 Clappers
S P H E R E S (December 2010) – Percussion Quintet & Prepared Piano
Sonic Event on the Significance of John Cage (2012) – Percussion Ensemble & Speaker

Portable Instrumentation Works

RatchetMusik #1 (amircantian) (2021) – 2+ Ratchet Performers
Ratchet Musik No.2 (2021) – Quartet for Ratchets
Ratchet Musik #3 (concentration) (2021) – Any Number of Ratchet Performers
Trio for Woodblocks (2000) – Trio for Wood Blocks
Akaheze Folk Song (2021) – Solo for Controlled Feedback & 2 Wind Whistles

Flexible Ensemble Works

Sensing 1 (2023) – 5 to 9 Players
Hallucinations (2025) – 7 or more Players
Some M.P.S. (but waaaaay better) (2019) – 3 or more players
Composition362 (2019, rev. 2021) – 3 or more Players
Strange Thoughts (2019) – 3 or more Players
Stars, Tears, and Ice Picks (2014) – 6-12 Players
For Johanna Beyer (2015) – 9 or more Plaeyrs & Speaker

With Other Instrument Works

On the One (2022) – Percussion Quintet with Piano
Ominous Presence (2022) – Septet for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Electric Guitar, Electronics, and Percussion

Unclassified

JAM BOX: Cajon Trio for Nate #1 and Nate #2 (2007-08) – Cajon Trio
Boxes of Music (2008) – Solo Percussion & Live Electronic Processing
Four Tempers (2009) – drum set part only (in collaboration with Eric P. Mandat)
High Fives for Eddie (2020) – Solo Drum with Optional Preparations
GLOCK9 (2013) – Solo for 9 Almglocken
The Bleak, Disconsolate Pulchritude (2014) – Quartet for Spoxe & Optional Live Feedback
Seven Thoughts for Glockenspiel (2015) – Solo Glockenspiel/Multiple Percussion
Zzzerrrrrangatang! (2015) – Solo Snare Drum & 4 Graduated Elephant Bells
LOST… (2015) – Bass Clarinet & 1-100+ Percussionists
Beautiful Waste (2015/16) – Solo Brake Drums & Live Electronics
Dark, True Center (2016) – Solo Manhassett Music Stand, Kalimba & Live Electronics
Meditation on Living (2016) – Solo Percussion & Live Electronics
Joy! (of the beautiful ones) (2016) – Solo Friction Snare Drum
Love Letter to a Liar (2016) – Solo Shona Mbira
Looking into a faded life burning out. (2007-2017) – Quartet for Glockenspiel/Crotales, Vibraphone, Marimba, and Bass Marimba
Rock Etudes 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 (2017, rev. 2018) – Any Number of Performers Playing Rocks
…the laughter of the mutilated…, RE: Bukowski (2018) – Solo Shona Mbira, Snare Drum & Vibrator
Rock Etudes 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (2006) – Any Number of Performers Playing Rocks