Written for the Quatuor Bozzini, the title of this piece can be loosely translated as “To go around oneself, to conform oneself”. Those concepts play a role in the musical material on several different levels: harmonic material, rhythmic structure, form,…
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Community-Normed
Only a small part of music is actually about sound. The majority of music-making has to do with social interactions more than anything else. Music fulfills certain functions (usually pre-determined) within certain social situations, or serves as a replacement for…
Tagged with: cello, chamber, clarinet, community-normed, continuum ensemble, flute, percussion, piano, violin
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Jackhammer Lullaby
Jackhammer Lullaby is an arrangement of Community-Normed, which was commissioned by the Continuum Ensemble in Toronto in 2008. I’ve become increasingly interested in presenting pieces in multiple versions and combinations. Jackhammer Lullaby, with a few changes, is also the middle…
Tagged with: cello, chamber, clarinet, community-normed, continuum ensemble, flute, jackhammer lullaby, percussion, piano, violin
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Four Stills on Evaporation in Thirty-One Fragments
This piece reflects my ongoing interests in sectional forms, doing away with transitional material, and the challenging of aesthetic assumptions. There is no attempt to relate any of the materials of the piece over the large scale. Instead, I have…
Tagged with: arditti quartet, cello, chamber, four stills on evaporation, string quartet, viola, violin
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Five Reflective Fragments
Five Reflective Fragments is based on a sequence of very brief text fragments extracted from a much longer poetic work, entitled I Lost Everything by poet Sarah Lang. The piece always presents this series of word-units in order and without…
Tagged with: cello, chamber, five reflective fragments, percussion, piano, speaking, string quartet, viola, violin
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Culture no.3
Culture no.3 is the last in a series of pieces that deals with the ways that modern popular culture can inform Western art music. More specifically, Culture no.3 is involved in exploring the interrelation between the visceral elements of popular…
Tagged with: cello, clarinet, contrabass, culture no.3, ensemble contemporain de montréal, flute, horn, large ensemble, percussion, piano, trombone, viola, violin
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Four Pieces for Accordion and String Quartet
Four Pieces for Accordion and String Quartet was written between the summer of 2002 and the fall of 2003. It was inspired by a series of poems called Swerve, by Canadian poet Sarah Lang. There are four poems in the…
Tagged with: accordion, cello, chamber, four pieces, mash-up, steve layton, string quartet, viñes passing through, viola, violin
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Nothing
Why call a piece Nothing? Well, in a word, curiosity—most of my music has as its theme the question, “What happens if…?” At the time I was writing Nothing (winter 2004), I was bothered by the almost total reliance on…
Tagged with: cello, contrabass, flute, large ensemble, nothing, percussion, saxophone, viola, violin
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- @elcush Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
- My response to @elcush's The Bacon-Wrapped Economy http://t.co/PFKEL7p9eH
- My latest blog post, looking at the difference between crowdfunding and traditional philanthropy:http://t.co/PFKEL7p9eH
- My latest article: Working for Free: Helpful or Harmful? http://t.co/TvNqXlxT54 a composer's response to @tanehisi Atlantic piece
- Composition Lessons: The Dirty Projector’s “Police Story” and on how to write for voice http://t.co/1ze2kTuBF0
- A friendly review of my premiere at Other Minds last weekend: http://t.co/d1EspIr1Q9
- The @OtherMindsSF Festival was pretty great this year, thanks to all involved.
- Soundcheck for @OtherMindsSF complete, come check out the show tonight, premiere of my piece.
- Apparently my "Machiavellian Guide" now ranks for the search term "iconoclast composer". ;-) http://t.co/tRwTLccA7R
- I will be interviewed by Sarah Cahill on @kalw_radio tonight for the @OtherMindsSF Festival, 8:00pm PST, check it out.
