New Score Images
While I’m getting this going:
Some images from a piece I’ve just finished, currently untitled.
For a trio of unspecified instruments. The box at the beginning of each line indicates that the performer should begin playing after hearing a specific type of event.
From the score:
The location of the circle(s) indicates an event which the player should listen for before beginning their next gesture. The beginning of the next gesture should correspond as closely as possible with the ending of the previous, listened-for, gesture. Circle placement is read as follows: the placement left to right inside the box indicates duration of the event, left being a short event, right being a long event. Bottom to top indicates pitch, low to high. For example, a circle in the bottom left corner of a box indicates a short, low event, and a circle in the upper right corner indicates a high, long event.
I’m trying to create a situation where each performer is reacting to the sounds the others produce, without there being a set form or outcome to the piece.
“Inevitably, there will come a situation in which all three performers are waiting for events which will not occur. This is the desired outcome of the piece, and should not be avoided or overcome through creative misinterpretation of heard events or environmental sounds. When this point is reached, the performers should continue sounding their current events until it is certain that the piece can progress no further, at least 30 seconds.”
I’ve been rehearsing the piece with David Collins and Steve Schlei, all three using live electronics – hopefully recording it soon.
Composer of electroacoustic and chamber music from Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Currently a pursuing a Masters in Composition at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
