VELVET AUDIO
Incendium
Available for Regional Protection
featuring the original music of Billie Eilish from her album, “dont smile at me”
CLASS: HIGH A - LOW OPEN / RUNTIME: 5’52
Incendium begins as a basic, tried and true love story between two characters and explores the metaphor of fire/burning as a symbol of lust.
Incendium begins as a basic, tried and true love story between two characters and explores the metaphor of fire/burning as a symbol of lust. The show opens with a short piano solo as the characters meet for the first time. This signifies the spark of feeling that is carried throughout the program. As the show progresses, we watch the characters become acquainted and eventually fall deeper and deeper for each other, or so it seems.
The final movement of Incendium serves as the turning point of the program. The battery percussion takes over as one character suddenly becomes distant from the other, eventually disappearing completely and leaving the latter left to question what happened and what to do with themselves now that they are alone. Billie Eilish’s vocals from her song watch drive this narrative and allow the audience to understand and relate to the feelings of the character who has been left alone.
Incendium serves as a great intermediate level production in all facets and allows for both individual personality and raw emotion to be displayed on the floor. If you’re looking for a balanced yet challenging program for your students, this one is for you!
Front Ensemble Percussion
- One Synthesizer (w/ Sampler)
- Bass Guitar Player
- Three Marimbas (4.5-octave range)
- Two Vibraphones (3-octave range)
- One Xylophone (w/ 3-octave Glockenspiel & 2-octave Crotale) combos
- One Drumset Player
- One Auxiliary Percussion
Battery Percussion
- Marching Snare Drum
- Marching Tenor Drums (w/ 2 spocks)
- Marching Bass Drums (5 drums)
- Marching Crash Cymbals
As this show contains copyrighted material by Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell along with ℗ 2017 Darkroom/Interscope Records for the track “watch,” we ask that you pay an additional estimated fee of $420 to obtain a license to perform for these copyright-protected songs.
- Full Scores & Parts (in .PDF format)
Front Ensemble & Battery Percussion Scores (in .PDF format)
Notation Files (Sibelius & MusicXML)
Full Show Audio (in .MP3 format)
Voiceovers & SFX (in .WAV format)
Tarp/Floor Design (in .JPEG format)
- Front Ensemble Percussion/SFX: Hunter Davis
Battery Percussion: Zach Brumfield
Voiceovers: Hunter & Alexandra Davis (@dearamaried)