Another odd, small, flatulent, cheerful piece of music. Two slow chorales, in oblique canon.
Aaron Plourde (trumpet), Katie Robertstad (trombone), and Cariad Zinky (piano). Download score.
"Between enthusiasm and scientific criticism one could find countless shades of opinion if one followed the history of ornithology." (Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space)
This solo for organ is a mutating passacaglia wherein all 126 5-note chords of an enneatonic collection are organised into 14 9-chord progressions, each progression slightly different from the one before it. As the register of the piece descends, its harmonic rhythm slows and evens out, a sort of unravelling. In doing so the piece traverses a trajectory from a clearer melodic character and profile towards an errant sequence of different sounds- harmony, timbre and time collapsing into a series of consistencies and textures- a distinctly different melodic paradigm.
written for and performed by Justin Murphy-Mancini on the Flentrop organ in Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin, OH. Download score.
An odd, small, flatulent, cheerful piece of music.
Laura Cocks (bass flute), William Eisenberg (horn) and Christian Smith (gong).
The first 12 minutes of a 90 minute performance on April 1st 2016 at 6.30pm by Kevin Dee (guitar) and Laura Cocks (flute). Russell House, Middletown CT. Download score.