Matre’s DanceThis arrangement seeks to maintain the stark colour palette of the original version by keeping the percussion part and primarily utilising wooden percussion instruments in lieu of the piano. The vibraphone voice is added throughout to bring out melodic lines where precise control of note length is necessary. The title refers to a dance performed by a group of fanatics in one of Frank Herberts Dune books. The dance was non repeating and exhausting for

- playing "silently" in the background) and only heard when triggered by live sounds from the performers

The rhythmic foundation of Corybas is based on an odd-metered pattern found in some forms of Eastern European dance music

allowing room for the vibraphone’s statements in its resonant lower voice

odd-metered bossa nova was actually something much deeper and heartfelt

otherwise the material would be stressful and unsatisfying to play instead of exciting

Arranger Omar Carmenates makes excellent use of timbre in this arrangement

and the enormous energy in the music of guitarists like Steve Vai

These are questions whose answers

The works were commissioned by Ian Graham as a birthday gift for his wife Agi Lehar-Graham (in the original manuscript Psathas adds a little wordplay to the work’s title

It was during this time that I remembered the term “vector space” used by artificial intelligence researchers in the development of autonomous driving technologies

a “good eye”

particularly that of the late 1980s and early 1990s