Aaron Gervais, composer » trio http://aarongervais.com Website for composer Aaron Gervais Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:09:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 junctQín premières Disney Princess Disasters http://aarongervais.com/performances/junctqin-premieres-disney-princess-disasters/ http://aarongervais.com/performances/junctqin-premieres-disney-princess-disasters/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:33:57 +0000 Aaron Gervais http://aarongervais.com/?p=1642 The junctQín keyboard collective première this new work on the Barrie’s Colours of Music festival. Based on classic fairytales with alternate endings, Disney Princess Disasters includes three pianists, three squeeze toys, one piano, and three fairytale princesses whose fates take a turn for the unexpected…

]]> http://aarongervais.com/performances/junctqin-premieres-disney-princess-disasters/feed/ 0 Culture no.2 (or, Shoot Like a Film Star) http://aarongervais.com/music/culture-no-2-or-shoot-like-a-film-star/ http://aarongervais.com/music/culture-no-2-or-shoot-like-a-film-star/#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:10:24 +0000 Aaron Gervais http://aarongervais.com/wp/?p=346 This is the middle piece in my Cul­ture series, which is an explo­ration of the effects that today’s cul­tural con­text has on making our music what it is. The text for the piece is taken from a junk e-mail mes­sage—cer­tainly among the more recent of lit­er­ary genres. It attracted me because it is com­posed entirely of mono­syl­labic words, with no rep­e­ti­tion; a kind of het­ero­ge­neous stream that strikes me as contemporary.

The middle sec­tion of the piece is inde­ter­mi­nate or open: the per­form­ers decide how the musi­cal mate­ri­als will be pre­sented. This is also some­thing that I take from the Cul­ture theme, because the mul­ti­plic­ity of pos­si­bil­i­ties, end­less var­ie­ga­tion, and the impos­si­bil­ity of find­ing “right” answers seem to me impor­tant cul­tural prob­lems today.

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