When we improvise, music happens in the present; it is how we commune with the forces around us, human and otherwise. By contrast, when we compose (which the great Wayne Shorter succinctly defined as “slowed-down improvisation”), we are sending a piece of music downstream, to be heard in the future. Like the other composers on this program, I find myself doing a lot of both: digging in to the “now,” with and among others, and plotting events for the “then,” for others. These are some ways that we make music for today and for tomorrow.
Auftragswerk : | Co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music and Artistic Director; KölnMusik GmbH; and Wigmore Hall with the generous support of The Hargreaves and Ball Trust |
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Content text: | I Appeals II Denial III Agonism |
Performance duration: | 20' 0" |
Publisher: | Schott Garden Music, New York |
Year of composition: | 2018 |
instrumentation: | 3perc(I: glsp, tub bells, s.d, tom-t, b.d, wdbl, tempbl, handclaps; II: glsp, xyl, vib, tri, b.d, clav, tempbl, handclaps; III: xyl, vib, b.d, tempbl, handclaps)-str(4.4.4.3.2 min.) |
Delivery rights: | worldwide |
When we improvise, music happens in the present; it is how we commune with the forces around us, human and otherwise. By contrast, when we compose (which the great Wayne Shorter succinctly defined as “slowed-down improvisation”), we are sending a piece of music downstream, to be heard in the future. Like the other composers on this program, I find myself doing a lot of both: digging in to the “now,” with and among others, and plotting events for the “then,” for others. These are some ways that we make music for today and for tomorrow.
Auftragswerk : | Co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music and Artistic Director; KölnMusik GmbH; and Wigmore Hall with the generous support of The Hargreaves and Ball Trust |
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Content text: | I Appeals II Denial III Agonism |
Performance duration: | 20' 0" |
Publisher: | Schott Garden Music, New York |
Year of composition: | 2018 |
instrumentation: | 3perc(I: glsp, tub bells, s.d, tom-t, b.d, wdbl, tempbl, handclaps; II: glsp, xyl, vib, tri, b.d, clav, tempbl, handclaps; III: xyl, vib, b.d, tempbl, handclaps)-str(4.4.4.3.2 min.) |
Delivery rights: | worldwide |