solm › 2016
bass clarinet, marimba, tape | 11:10 | for Transient Canvas
premiere: Transient Canvas; October 4, 2016 at Boston Conservatory
n o t e s
I spent part of the summer of 2016 in Japan, where I hardly speak the language and can understand only the most fundamental words for functional communication. The effect of being there is that words cease to be language and become sound, subtle differentiated but absent of expression. Meaning is lost, while the sound acquires form, gesture, and texture.
solm aims for such an experience in music, dealing in the familiar, repetitious, submerged and veiled. The performers navigate the landscape of the score among self-similar aural signals, carving a path through the surface of the sound.
score: pdf download | hard copy
press: iciyl / boston globe
Transient Canvas
available on Wired (2018)
