{"id":1980,"date":"2025-08-04T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/?page_id=1980"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:28:57","slug":"cradles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/cradles\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-13ec1e00087dba012917c2abaf60ad7b\" style=\"font-size:clamp(1.25rem, 1.25rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.364), 2rem);font-style:normal;font-weight:200;text-transform:none\"><em>Cradles<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-system-font-font-family has-small-font-size wp-elements-8f2bd6f3b9ca516dbefb6e351d86cca6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">first performance: &#8216;Speak Percussion&#8217;; Haus der Berliner Festspiele, March 2013 &#8212; commissioned by Maerzmusik Berlin and Julian Burnside &#8212; instrumentation: two reel-to-reel tape machines, amplification, cut audio tape, suspended bells, finger cymbals, various assorted shakers, castanets, Japanese toy drums, carious assorted chimes (shels, wood, goats&#8217; toe nails, light bulbs, light metal etc.), glockenspiel \/ electric piano (doubling transistor organ), or playback  &#8212; duration variable \/ 2013<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Cradles<em>&nbsp;is a lullaby that helps put treasured analogue musical equipment to bed. The work takes its inspiration from the sensuous, tactile relationship between performer and their instrument. The piece is dedicated to \u2018Speak Percussion\u2019 for whom it was written, and to Julian Burnside, whose generous financial support made the commissioning of the work possible.&nbsp;<\/em>(TM)<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/gRyUS4PkN5M?\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\n\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/PRpBxXMjpco?\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\n\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLEBv5qCtfk?\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\n\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-680684cb088bc6c469f6fc4e26f69470\" style=\"text-transform:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/music\/#music-news-in-music\">back<\/a><br><br><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cradles first performance: &#8216;Speak Percussion&#8217;; Haus der Berliner Festspiele, March 2013 &#8212; commissioned by Maerzmusik Berlin and Julian Burnside &#8212; instrumentation: two reel-to-reel tape machines, amplification, cut audio tape, suspended bells, finger cymbals, various assorted shakers, castanets, Japanese toy drums, carious assorted chimes (shels, wood, goats&#8217; toe nails, light bulbs, light metal etc.), glockenspiel \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1980","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1980\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}