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PROGRAM NOTES
Wide Load
Bass Clarinet & Baritone Saxophone
Duration:
2'30"
Year:
2024/2025
- Bass Clar & Bar Sax edition -
Program note:
Wide Load, in this edition scored for Bass Clarinet and Baritone Saxophone, explores the universe that exists in the lowest register of these two very low instruments. They are often musically spaced very close together, creating a low driving sound that murk’s its way through the musical landscape. This space between the two instruments creates a “wide” and “heavy” sound, grounding the music in the deepest depths of the instruments. The music is then constructed around the resonation effect that this space loads, often reaching beyond the low boundaries initially set up.
-MM
Zodiac
Marimba
Duration:
20'
Year:
2016
Program note:
Zodiac was composed in 2016 on a consortium including 30 percussionists. The work in divided into 12 movements, with each movement corresponding to an astrological sign. These are 12 very short splashes of astrological sound, that each take an idea and then explore permutations and developments of small, short ideas. The music weaves itself through rhythm, color, and melodic ideas, expanding and contracting, like the universe itself. I wrote the majority of Zodiac on a beautiful Marimba One owned by the Peter Ferry and was also able to workshop the piece with Peter, which proved to be an incredible experience into the world of what’s possible (and what’s not), on marimba. More importantly, however, I felt that the music emanated from the instrument, and I was less composing and more refining what the instrument wanted to sing.
-MM
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