This is Water!, for ensemble and tape, takes its name from the book of the same title by David Foster Wallace, subtitled ‘Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ (Little, Brown & co., New York, 2009). Here is the passage, which gives that book its name: There are these two young […]
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Tagged 2010, audio, cello, clarinet, electro, electronics, flute, percussion, string quartet, viola, violin
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Some words that I had nearby while writing this piece (courtesy of Roger Deakin, C.D. Wright, Seamus Heaney and Friedrich Dürrenmatt): Daydreaming has been my making and my undoing — like having a light at your back you can’t see but can still feel. ‘Since when,’ he asked, ‘Are the first and last line of any […]
The nature of human perception is fascinatingly unclear. That so much of what we experience we experience almost unknowingly, taking in the textures of the world without clearly perceiving their construction from thousands of tiny strands is essential to the apparent ineffability of our surroundings. The heightened ambiguities of sleep and its perimeters introduce interesting […]
Scenes from Babel uses recordings of the human voice almost exclusively, exploring the sound material’s potential for the contrasting of a natural (but seemingly artificial), interior, oral space with an artificial (but seemingly natural), exterior, environmental space. The recordings are of the story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1 – 9) in ten languages and I […]
Chant-cris Notturno/Abschiedslied I Aubade/Abschiedslied II Three Sky Studies, for solo piano, were composed over the course of 2009, with ‘Chant-cris’, a virtuosic scattering of notes inspired by birdsong and Elliott Carter’s Caténaires, acting as a kind of short prelude to the second and third movements, which were written with pianist friends in mind. The first […]