Matthew+Hindson

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Matthew Hindson born in Woolongong in 1968. He is an Australian art music composer and studied at the universities of Melbourne and Sydney. As well as being a famous composer he also teachers musical composition at Sydney University.===== [|more information about Hindson]

Hindsons work has been played in a number of countries omost famous ver the world including in ensembles in native Australia, as well as in New Zeland, Germany, France and UK
HIs work was most famous in the time between 1994 and 2001. But he had good songs before and after this time.

Most of Hindsons work contains at least one piano as is demonstrated in the below song called " Pulse Magnet."

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This song is also very based around percussive sounds as is heard by the loud and ominous sounds of the snare drum being hit as well as the cow bell being played throughout the majority of the song. At the beginning of the song the percussive sounds ie: The drum is being played on the off beat and in a very irregular pattern. The piano after everything drops out is being played very forcefully with sharp and short notes. This is called Marcato. Pulse Magent was written for 2 pianos and 2 percussive instruments. There is also a Glock being played as well, and the piano riff changes from very high sounds (Altissimo) to very low sounds. Also the music drops out completely for a fair amount of time. Finally, the drummer hits the rim of the snare drum to give a very hard metal sound that is short and sharp.

Instruments:

Piano played forcefully. Also plays majority of riffs not many or basically no piano chords played throughout the hole song. Orchestral untuned drum Temple Block playing an ostinado. Normal drums playing percussion. all music almost drops out changing the texture of the song Also all instruments come in at a time changing the texture. He is tapping with his drum sticks on a surface possibly the outer rim of the snare drum to provide a hard percussive sound. also bongos are being used but are being hit with drum sticks to provide a different bongo sounding percussion. Glockenspiel to add to the tone color as well as the texture. Cymbals are being used as well to add to the percussive sound.

But the above song is very different to his song rush which is below which is more based around guitar riffs and melodies. This work is based around the current or past work from Metallica. The guitar riff/Melody is played on a nylon sting guitar to fit in well with the accompanying string instrument. Again not to dissimilar to his song "Pulse Magent" this song is very upbeat but does not use as much percussive instruments and no piano is being used unlike 'Pulse Magent.' The Violin and double bass are playing a very Irish sounded music and the guitar riff over the top makes it sounds really nice. The sudden transition between loud (Fortissimo) with many or all of the instrument playing and the changing to Very soft (Mezzo piano) with the guitar and just a soft percussive sound playing. Rush was originally written for guitar and a string quartet but can also be played with an Oboe and string quartet.

Instruments: nylon string guitar playing riff badding to the tone colour and texture of the song. The guitar is being played fairly high making the overall pitch of the song fairly high./ also there are 3 violins being played which add to the highness of the pitch chello also adds a bass to the song adding to the texture of the song as well as the tone colour.

Rush and Pulse Magnet are two of Hidsons best ensembles and have gotten worldwide recognition. His work has been in many international dances including: The San Francisco Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and finally at home in Australia in the Sydney Dance company.

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