Dean Drummond
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Dean Drummond (born 1949) is an American composer, conductor and musician. His music utilises microtonality, electronics, and a huge variety of percussion. He invented a 31-tone instrument called the zoomoozophone in 1978.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Los Angeles, he studied trumpet and composition at the University of Southern California and California Institute of the Arts, going on to work for Harry Partch. In 1976, he moved to New York, where, in 1977, he was one of the founders of Newband. In 1990, he became director and curator of the Harry Partch Instrumentarium. He has performed on many of the Partch instruments (kithara, surrogate kithara, harmonic canons, adapted guitar) and his zoomoozophone, and given many educational workshops. He was a director of the New York Consortium for New Music for over ten years, and was involved in producing the annual Sonic Boom Festival. He is now Associate Professor and Director of the Harry Partch Institute at Montclair State University, New Jersey.
[edit] Works
Most of his works are published by Hypersound.
[edit] Solo instrumental
- Suite for Clarinet (1970) - clarinet
- Organ Toccata (1971) - pipe organ
- Cloud Garden II (1974) - piano/celeste/almglocken
- Post Rigabop Mix (1977) - flute
- Copégoro (1978) - percussion
- Columbus Fullmoon (1979/1985) - zoomoozophone
- Different Drums for Different Strokes (1988) - percussion
- Mars Face (1997) - violin and microtonally programmed synthesizer
- Four Miniatures (1997): Syncopation in Glass and Talking Bowls - cloud chamber bowls; Bow, Chords and Zoom and Three Dream Fragments - zoomoozophone duet
- Two Short Zoomoozophone Duos (1997)
- Two Short Solos for Cloud Chamber Bowls (1997)
- Precious Metals (1997) - flute
[edit] Vocal compositions
- Bertrans de Born (1971) - bass-baritone, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, French horn, piano/celeste, string quartet, double bass
- My Data's Gone (1997) - bass and microtonally programmed synthesizer - lyrics by Charles Bernstein
- It Must Be Time (1997) - soprano and microtonally programmed synthesizer - lyrics by Charles Bernstein
- Congressional Record (1999) - baritone and eight instrumentalists - texts from the Congressional Record
- Café Buffé (2006) - opera - five singers, dancers, and eighteen instrumentalists - libretto by Charles Bernstein
[edit] Works for multiple instrumentalists
- Ni Kioku (1971) - flute, celeste, harp, violin, cello, two percussionists
- Dedication (1972) - oboe, harp, string quartet, double bass, three percussionists
- Fission (1972) - flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, harp, vibraphone, violin, viola, cello
- Ghost Tangents (1973/1975) - prepared piano, three percussionists
- Cloud Garden I (1974/9) - flute, piano, four percussionists
- Zurrjir (1976) - flute, clarinet, piano/celeste, three percussionists
- Dirty Ferdie (Quartet Version) (1976) - four percussionists
- Little Columbus (1979) (Part 1 of Columbus) (1980) - two percussionists
- Columbus (1980) - flute, three percussionists
- Dirty Ferdie (Octet Version) (1981) - eight percussionists
- Mysteries (Octet Version) (1982/6) - flute, violin, cello, five percussionists
- Mysteries (Quintet Version) (1983) - five percussionists
- Mysteries (Septet Version) (1983) - flute, bass trombone, five percussionists
- Then or Never (1984) - flute, viola, double bass, three percussionists
- Ruby Half Moon (1987) - 2 trumpets, trombone, bass trombone, four percussionists
- Incredible Time (to live and die) (1988) - amplified flute, microtonally programmed synthesizer, three percussionists
- Dance of the Seven Veils (1992) - flute, cello, chromelodeon, microtonally programmed synthesizer, three percussionists
- The Day the Sun Stood Still (1994) - flute, trumpet, cello, microtonally programmed synthesizer, harmonic canons, four percussionists
- Before the Last Laugh (1995) - flute, cello, microtonally programmed synthesizer, three harmonic canons, two percussionists
- The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann) (1996) - live film score for the 1924 silent film by F.W. Murnau - flutes, cello, trumpet, chromelodeon, microtonally programmed synthesizer, four harmonic canons, four percussionists
- For the Last Laugh (1998) - suite from the film score - flutes, cello, trumpet, chromelodeon, microtonally programmed synthesizer, four harmonic canons, four percussionists
- M.S. Genitron (2001) - ten percussionists
- Phil Harmonic (2002) - 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, alto saxophone, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, chromelodeon, zoomoozophone, timpani, percussion, strings
[edit] Films
- 1995 - Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy - Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, and Terry Riley. Directed by Michael Blackwood.
