Table Talk, by Alyssa Weinberg

Table Talk, by Alyssa Weinberg Performed by: arx duo Garrett Arney Mari Yoshinaga ----------------------- MALLETS USED: #vfM131 - Orchestral Series Contemporary Series ----------------------- ABOUT THE PIECE: ’Table Talk’ Table Talk was commissioned by Arx Duo in 2016 with the goal of exploring the concept of percussion “4-hands.“ Taking the idea of piano 4-hand music and applying it to a shared percussion set-up, I was inspired to make one more parallel to a technique common to modern piano repertoire, that of “preparing“ the instrument. Composed at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute, this piece for prepared vibraphone evolved as an attempt to stretch the idea of what a vibraphone could sound like, from exploiting the subtle timbral shifts of a single note to mask