Extra Terra
General Info
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:27:00
Cost: €227.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: Glockenspiel
Player 2: Vibraphone 1
Player 3: Vibraphone 2
Player 4: Chimes
Player 5: Xylophone & Crotales & Tom Tom (Medium High)
Player 6: Marimba & Tom Tom (Medium)
Player 7: Marimba & Tom Tom (Medium Low)
Player 8: Marimba
Player 9: Marimba
Player 10: Timpani
Player 11: Snare Drum & Roto Toms & Octobans & Splash Cymbal & Kick Drum
Player 12: Bongos & Congas & Field Drum & Ribbon Crasher
Player 13: 4 Concert Tom Tom & 2 Wood Blocks & Ribbon Crasher
Player 14: Bell Tree & Triangle & 2 Wood Blocks & Ocean Drum & Sleigh Bells
Player 15: Chinese Cymbal & Suspended Cymbal & Wind Chimes & Tambourine & Hi Hat & Hand Cymbals
Player 16-17: Thunder Sheet & Hand Cymbals & Sizzle Cymbal & Suspended Cymbal & China Cymbal & Anvil & Hi Hat
Player 18: Concert Bass Drum
Description
This epic 25-minute concert work for percussion orchestra expresses the consecutive stages to reach the planet Mars and eventually form a colony as an outer earth, an Extra Terra. A company like SpaceX is leading the way right now to realize this vision of nearby future. Visionaries like Elon Musk believe that we are depleting our planet so much that we will eventually have to make a choice to leave our planet and colonize Mars. The various stages of development will appear during the composition: from the first satellite that passed Mars in 1965 to the actual manned mission, expected sometime in the coming decades. The eventual foundation of a community as a vision for the future concludes this compelling piece commissioned by HMC Helmond for their successful 2022 WMC participation. It is divided into three large parts and preceded by a Prologue and Intrada. The three main parts are called 'phases' in science. Various subsections of these phases describe the specific events on our way to the red planet.
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Solo
El Classico Nuevo
Ex Machina 2
Nox Oculus
Seasons
Suite Anicienne Nouveau
Twelve Developing Solos for Snare Drum
Time Divided
Percussion Ensemble (10-12 Players)
A Blue Cadance (Extended) - Percussion (10)
Arabian Dance - Percussion (12)
Blinding Lights - Percussion (12)
Exuma - Percussion (11)
My Love is Like a Red Red Rose (Extended Version) - Percussion (11); Flute
Open Up! (Version 1) - Percussion (10)
Passio Laurentio - Percussion (10)
Patamba - Percussion (10)
Synergy (Houben) - Percussion Octet
Time Line - Percussion (10)
Tres Muses - Percussion (10) & Soprano Saxophone & Flugel Horn
Percussion Ensemble (13-15 Players)
A Saturdaynight Soundtrack - Percussion (15)
A Silver Lining - Euphunium & Percussion (14) & Keyboard
Aura - Percussion (15)
D'Artagnan: le Siège de Maestricht - Percussion (15)
Deetere - Percussion (14)
Duende - Percussion (13)
Equilibrium - Percussion (13)
Evolve (Houben) - Percussion (15) & Bass Trombone
Extasis - Percussion (13)
First Contact? - Percussion (15)
Feniks Rising - Percussion (13)
Hatirla Antalya - Percussion (13)
Musicology - Percussion (13)
Open Up! (Version 2) - Percussion (13)
Pandora's Box - Percussion (15)
Pangea to Proxima - Percussion (15)
Promise Me - Percussion (13)
Reflections of a Reality - Percussion (14)
Soleil Levant - Percussion (14)
Soul of the Dragon - Percussion (14)
Suite Slava - Percussion (13)
Unitas Aureus - Percussion (13)
Percussion Ensemble (16 Players or more)
Android Anthem - 16 Players
Cygnus X - 16 Players
Evolve (2022 Version) - 18 Players
Extra Terra - 18 Players
Eyes of an Oak - 17 Players
Na Dato - 16 Players
Nyama - 23 Players
Open Up! (Version 3) - 16 Players
The Sky is the Limit - 19 Players
To One In Paradise - 20 Players; Voices
Zeitgeist - 16 Players