Plastic Orchestra, by Sofia Frohna

Plastic Orchestra

by Sofia Frohna

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1.	Plastic Orchestra - Movement Two 04:20	buy track
2.	Melodica Orchestration Guide 04:05	buy track
3.	Bass Melodica Orchestration Guide 05:31	buy track
4.	Key Harmonica Orchestration Guide 03:19	buy track
5.	Piano Horn Orchestration Guide 02:38	buy track
6.	Recorders Orchestration Guide 05:09	buy track
7.	Auxiliary Instruments and Noisemakers Orchestration Guide 04:34	buy track
8.	Bass Flute Orchestration Guide 03:53	buy track
9.	Boomwhackers Orchestration Guide 02:53	buy track

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Plastic Orchestra is an exploration of joy, timbre, collaboration, and active listening.

Over the past year, twenty musicians and I have played with the possibilities and limitations of an ensemble made entirely of plastic instruments. Made up of toys, educational tools, found objects, and oddities, the Plastic Orchestra asks; What can an instrument do? What can it not? How does one highlight and celebrate the full spectrum of can to cannot? I am fascinated by the tonality of the wonky, of the emergent tones of plastic harmony. I am interested in what it means to learn how to listen to these objects; to gradually hear the sound itself rather than the novelty or the familiarity of the sound. I have let these strange and beautiful instruments be the guide for how I compose, how the musicians play, and how an audience could listen.

I have written a six-movement piece for the Plastic Orchestra, which was initially supposed to be performed in April 2020. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the premiere has been postponed indefinetly. The sound of the Plastic Orchestra is primary to this project, so I took as many instruments as I could home with me and recorded Movement Two to share with everyone. Additionally, in order to preserve what we have learned, and with the hope that someone else might be inspired to write for them, I (along with help from the musicians) have created audio orchestration guides for each instrument in the Plastic Orchestra.
Plastic Orchestra is Sofia Frohna's honors thesis in Music at Brown University.
- Sofia Frohna, May 2020.

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released June 25, 2023

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