Glocken by Julian Broadhurst

Glocken - Metal Percussion music, MPm 5 - my 52nd album.
On this 5th the MPm album there are three complementary works. two of which are pieces in my Integral Percussion Series.

Imprints for wood percussion – Rh 220.

A two meter wooden beam, about 10 cm in diameter, was secured at each end and a standing percussionist [in this case me] performs with soft and hard headed sticks - hence imprints, left on the beam after the performance. Recorded live to tape in the Big Space at Isabel.

Glocken – Rh 224 and G-Square – Rh 225.

Two parallel works for Orchestral Glockenspiel and Electronics. Works and methodology in the Integral Percussion Series.

Beginning with my Four Klavierstuck, I explore, a minimalist Progress - an exploration of means and minima – invention with the least of means – the closest invention. Looking then to construct real music - with that least of means - in the way of a percussionist and his studio. That gives me a starting point for a whole season of works – wrapping itself around, but completely separate from the other big series in this Group – the Nono series - all inside this New Horizon Group. So I have a methodology of invention – from the Piano as a Percussion instrument - that I move to use with other Orchestral Percussion instruments. With electronics and Tapes and Studio Time - this then, is my Integral Percussion Series. Quite radical formulations for Piano – Glockenspiel – Prepared Piano –Vibraphone – Marimba and Cello - snaking across my established Genres as ‘Crosscurrents.’


The Integral Percussion Series

IPS 01 - Rh 171 Klavierstuck 1
IPS 02 - Rh 172 Klavierstuck 2
IPS 03 - Rh 173 Klavierstuck 3

IPS 04 - Rh 223 Klavierstuck 4
IPS 05 - Rh 224 Glocken
IPS 06 - Rh 225 G Square
IPS 07 - Rh 226 Sonata for Prepared Piano
IPS 08 - Rh 227 Sonataphon Mvts. 1 & 2
IPS 09 - Rh 228 Etuda

IPS 10 - Rh 230 Amarimb
IPS 11 - Rh 231 Amberim
IPS 12 - Rh 232 Algorim


An early reorganization of my music research interests had defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Metal Percussion music, MPM. Percussion on anything other than Drums. Percussion as a Generality as opposed to Drums as a Speciality. By Convention MPm.

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, MPm. The third of five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion. Last of the five is Electronic music - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Albums number 28 to 58 form my second big publishing project or Group - the 'New Horizon' - built on the foundational 'Blue Cherry' Group - where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest, as Blocks of dedicated albums. Now in a new air I felt free to just reel them of as they came. Exploring like a man with a Time machine - where these five Genres, or Tranches, might lead me.

There are 3 MPm albums in the New Horizon group, MPm 4 – 6. MPm 4 is the ‘Sonata for Tuned Metal no. 1’ in two mvts – with a work for Clockworks and one for Bass Harmonics. MPm 5 is ‘Glocken’ – with three pieces - ‘Imprints for wood percussion’ - ‘Glocken,’ a 27 minute progress for Glockenspiel and ‘G – Square’ – a parallel meditation on Glocken, itself a crosscurrent toward Electronic music. Lastly, MPm 6 ‘Etuda,’ also with 3 pieces – ‘Klavierstuck 4’ – for piano; ‘Sonataphon’ in 2 movements for Vibraphone and ‘Etuda,’ a charming little piece also for Vibraphone. Many of these pieces form part of my Integral Percussion Series – which like the Nono series cuts across my established Genres.

The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.