Interlocking Hands (2017)
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 1: No 3
Dedicated to Justinian Tamusuza
Composed 6 September 2017, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1281 (Volume 1 Complete)
Duration: 1'15"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance: 21 August 2021; Le Genesteix Concerts, Azat-le-Riz, France;
Antony Gray piano
Programme note
Interlocking Hands explores the characteristically African music texture and rhythmic technique known as interlocking. It bears a similarity to hocketing in medieval and contemporary art music. Interlocking is central to the music of Justinian Tamusuza, Uganda's leading composer, who demonstrates it beautifully with his hands as shown in the photograph below.
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 1: No 3
Dedicated to Justinian Tamusuza
Composed 6 September 2017, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1281 (Volume 1 Complete)
Duration: 1'15"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance: 21 August 2021; Le Genesteix Concerts, Azat-le-Riz, France;
Antony Gray piano
Programme note
Interlocking Hands explores the characteristically African music texture and rhythmic technique known as interlocking. It bears a similarity to hocketing in medieval and contemporary art music. Interlocking is central to the music of Justinian Tamusuza, Uganda's leading composer, who demonstrates it beautifully with his hands as shown in the photograph below.
