"Silversmith" for Percussion Quartet by Srayamurtikanti

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Third Coast Percussion: Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore
Recorded Live at Constellation Chicago, 2024
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From the Composer:
Silversmith (2024) describes the sound memory of my hometown in Bali, Desa Celuk. From the 1980s to the early 2000s, my village was famous for gold and silver craftsmanship. We produced many varieties of creative handicrafts, especially accessories and tools for ritual ceremonies.
Previously, most of Celuk’s residents worked as silversmiths. With every step you took, you could hear the sounds of gold and silver smiths working away. However, since the Bali bombing in 2002, the activity of silver craft has decreased and affected the economic life of Celuk. We’re still left with memories of our village’s glorious past.
Silversmith represents the sound memory of Celuk’s people who still work as silversmiths and those who pay serious attention to the continuity and survival of Celuk’s culture and community. There are several sections of the piece that refer to the sounds of the main steps in shaping silver. The first step of the process is melting: firing the silver base materials, where the foot pump hisses hhhuuhhss...hhhuuhhss...hhuuhhss. In the piece, pipes are swished against bowls and brushes are rubbed against drumheads to represent the sounds. In the second step of hammering, the cooled silver is struck with a hammer to shape it into the desired shape of the accessory. The hammer strikes ring out tang..teng..tang..teng..tang..teng...represented in the piece by playing the flat bars and vibraphones. The third step of ornamenting the silver is represented by combining melodies from two scales of the flat bars and vibraphone. The melodies are inspired by the shape of the bun-bunan (Celuk’s characteristic ornamentation). The last section is a combination of all the sounds. The piece is a nostalgic flashback of Celuk’s glorious past.
Silversmith is a gift for my ancestors, my family, and the people of Celuk village. It is also a reminder that we once shared one breath, one community, and one unified purpose in life. Through Silversmith, I hope that listeners can imagine and experience some of the memories of my village’s spirit and our glorious days of silver crafting. Thank you. - Srayamurtikanti

Silversmith was composed through Third Coast Percussion’s Currents Creative Partnership, a free to apply to opportunity for composers who are at the beginning of their careers, have less experience writing music for percussion, or are looking to expand their creative work in new directions to collaborate with Third Coast Percussion on the creation of a new work over the course of an entire year. Learn more and apply here: https://thirdcoastpercussion.com/prog...

Commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting as part of Third Coast Percussion's Currents Creative Partnership, a program supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Sidney K Robinson, the DEW Foundation, and the Sargent Family Foundation.
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