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First Punch

For contrabass and CD playback 
Commissioned by Yann Dubost
Duration: 7'30"

RECORDING by Yann Dubost

PERUSAL SCORE
first_punch_perusal_score.pdf
File Size: 1096 kb
File Type: pdf
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PROGRAM NOTE

The first punch is everything. It represents a conclusion of thought – an end to analyzing personal motivation, estimating an opponent's strengths and weaknesses, playing out scenarios of strategies and positions, surveying surroundings, calculating odds of winning – ultimately putting into action a series of electronic impulses sent from the brain to a few thousand muscle fibers. That's a lot that happens in a few seconds. Cinematographers reflect an awareness of the hyper-mental and hyper-physical state required to survive in a fight by using effects like replay, slow motion, freeze, and flashback to ''stretch'' time. These effects allow film makers to portray the multitude of thoughts and events that happen in a two second window over the course of a several minute scene. This composition, First Punch, is a musical depiction of the hyper-mental and hyper-physical state of a fighter. Using similar techniques to those mentioned above, this piece ''stretches'' time to reflect the many (and varied) thoughts and emotions that a fighter experiences in the last few seconds before the first punch is thrown.


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More information about french contrabassist Yann Dubost on his website:
http://www.yanndubost.com


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  • Biography
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    • Orchestra >
      • Flex Works
      • Snitchin' in the Kitchen (grade 3 with audio track)
      • Electric Breakdance (string orchestra)
      • Aurum Tetra (Saxophone Quartet Concerto)
      • Aurum Tetra (string quartet concerto)
      • Worlds Without End
      • Dizzy Overture
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      • Leaving White
      • Leap (chamber orchestra)
      • Drifting Indigo
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      • Can I See Your Socks
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      • Concerto por Trombonito
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      • High Road
      • No Improv Monday
      • The Greasy Toaster
      • White Cliffs of Dover (arr.)
    • Choir >
      • Little Lamb (SATB choir)
      • Eternity's Heirs
    • Saxophone(s) >
      • Aurum Tetra (Sax Quartet Concerto)
      • Get More Epic!
      • Metal Lizard Shift (solo bari)
      • Digital Goldfish (Sax Quartet)
      • Drum N Bari
      • The Secret Life
      • Shipbreaking
      • To Raise Up
    • Flute >
      • Powder Jam
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      • Drum N Bass Clarinet
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      • Can You Crack It? (solo and tape)
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