Kontact Dance by Julian Broadhurst

Kontact Dance - Metal Percussion music, MPm 11 - my 91st album. Four consecutive pieces for Metal Percussion and Electronics.

I’ve come through the Art theoretics of the Rothko pieces and the Sound prints, I turn now back to something basic in me - the percussion with metal MPm, but I don’t just want to hit metal, in the way of a blacksmith, apron on with a hammer in my hand. I want something new. I want metal music, purportedly a Dance Music - for performance, maybe in a room next door to the Sound Prints or the Rothko works. These are performed pieces - perhaps I might perform them in the gallery space and exhibit what I’m performing them on. Artfully though they are not just a set of performed pieces - I have enhanced the sound, I have ‘painted’ with the sound. It could be said that this was Electronic music - or Electroacoustic music - but it is clearly Metal Percussion music - performed and crafted - a Kontact Dance, with some delicacy. Kontact, that is between dancers - or of my Percussive Kontact with metal objects? I did not say which.

Etuda Dada - Rh 338, recalling Etuda my Dance based Collaboration.

Orchestra of Angels - Rh 339, an immortal line of thought I borrowed from the Eurythmics’ song ‘there must be an Angel (Playing with my Heart), which I’ve always felt could some me up in one line.

Ripple - Rh 340, a distinctive heft about this piece - a dance for Blacksmiths perhaps ?

Kontact Dance - Rh 341, a multi layered definition of voices and densities, with quite some delicacy of preparation - a true music of Metal Percussion. If I were to be asked ‘what did you achieve with your MPm’ Genre - I would reply with this.

An early reorganization of my music research interests had defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this case Metal Percussion music, MPm, percussion on anything other than Drums. By Convention MPm.

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, Metal Percussion music, or MPm. The third of five is the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP. The last genre is Electronic music, Em, taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Album numbers 76 to 95 form my fourth ‘Group’ - a 4th time division across my Genres, my Inner Blue Group. This builds on the foundational 'Blue Cherry Group' [where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest] and the big 'New Horizon Group' - [where I explored to see where these five genres were leading me]. There then seemed to be a ‘band of gold’ across my discography. My Golden Band Group, that mark a particularly successful time for me. The albums that follow that, 76 to the end, are a ‘Blue Horizon’ - after the phrase’ blue sky research’ - the ‘Blue Horizon Group.’ For convenience, I divided this Huge area into the Inner and the Outer Blue Groups. So the Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Horizon - or Inner Blue Group.

There are two MPm albums in the Inner Blue Group – MPm 10 & 11.

[] Album MPm 10, is the First and Second Dance Suites for Metal Percussion, the notion of a danceable percussion. At heart that’s all dance Music is but I had in mind some future professional. Let it stand as music, with the consideration of Dance.

[] Album MPm 11 Kontact Dance, is another collection of purportaby Danceable music. With both sets I’m trying to give an extra layer of intent to my MPm genre.

Inner Blue Group - MPm []

DCM 076 - Em 29 - Auda
DCM 077 - MSEP 19 - Assign 1 - 4
DCM 078 - Phm 8 - Deep Pink
DCM 079 - Em 30 - Haus music
DCM 080 - Em 31 - Magic lily music

[] DCM 081 -MPm 10 - 1st & 2nd Da Su for Mp []

DCM 082 - Phm 9 - Beriom 1 - 3 (6 Tromb.)
DCM 083 - MSEP 20 - War Skies Over London
DCM 084 - Phm 10 - Beriom 4 - 7 (4 & 5 Fl)
DCM 085 - Em 32 - Beriom 8
DCM 086 - Em 33 - Beriom 9
DCM 087 - Em 34 - Beriom 10
DCM 088 - Em 35 - Untitled
DCM 089 - Em 36 - Rothko Triptych
DCM 090 - Phm 11- Sound Prints

[] DCM 091 -MPm 11 - Kontact Dance []

DCM 092 - Dm 13 - 2nd & 3rd Inv for Dj
DCM 093 - Em 37 - Ober
DCM 094 - Dm 14 - 4th Inv Dj - Dm Sn no. 8
DCM 095 - MSEP 21 - Bela Whispers

The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2020. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planned from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.