Wide open, the sweep and curve of gravity draws swerves out of the body. The dust that patterns remote points appears near: veined boulders, icebergs calved into air, sheets of dirty purple glass cornering into one another. A finger traces through the mist and repeats, trying to settle at a place of no dimensions full […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2014, cello, chamber
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All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2013, bass clarinet, cello, clarinet, ensemble, guitar, percussion, saxophone, tenor saxophone, violin, voice
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Recently I have been interested in cartography and the important role it plays in how we comprehend the spaces we inhabit. An atlas is a collection of maps, often several maps show the same area but map different details and data, each time revealing another facet of the land’s geography. Small Atlas lays out a […]
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 […]
By Chris
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Posted in Withdrawn, Works
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Also tagged 2010, audio, cello, clarinet, electro, electronics, 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 […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2010, audio, cello, chamber, voice
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