Cameron Sinclair: Shifting Sands [download]

Shifting Sands was written immediately after Funk Loops and uses similar forces in a stark minimalist style. It opens mysteriously with free-floating sounds that outline the melodic material of the piece, before it is propelled into a motoric section with close canons and tight interlocking patterns.

Player 1: glockenspiel & shaker

Player 2: vibraphone (no motor - with bass bow & mallets)

Player 3: marimba (4.3)

Player 4: upturned cymbal on large timpano & marimba (4.3)

Player 5: marimba (4.3)

Player 6: marimba (5 oct.)

Player 7: suspended cymbal (with bass bow & mallets)& marimba (shared with P.6)

Player 8: bass drum & shaker.