Divisions
Listen:
Instrumentation:
4 percussions, big set-up
4 percussions, big set-up
Premiered:
Lawrence University Percussion Ensemble, Dane Richeson, conductor
March 3, 2013 at Lawrence Memorial Chapel, Appleton, WI.
Lawrence University Percussion Ensemble, Dane Richeson, conductor
March 3, 2013 at Lawrence Memorial Chapel, Appleton, WI.
About:
When people argue they tend to essentialize things; they think they are either right or wrong, but it’s usually a lot more complicated than that. Visually, the wooden and the metallic percussion instruments appear completely divided with the Thunder sheets separating them. However, the music shows the complexity of the issues that divide us. I was working a lot with different combinations and pairings of players to explore the divided wooden and metallic timbres.This piece also fluctuates between sections which have an certain argumentative quality and sections which have a much more cohesive sound. But even the argumentative sections have something that just barely keeps them together. Conversely, the cohesive sections have something that’s a little bit off about them and I hope that this reflects that sort of gray area that occupies all of these divisions.
When people argue they tend to essentialize things; they think they are either right or wrong, but it’s usually a lot more complicated than that. Visually, the wooden and the metallic percussion instruments appear completely divided with the Thunder sheets separating them. However, the music shows the complexity of the issues that divide us. I was working a lot with different combinations and pairings of players to explore the divided wooden and metallic timbres.This piece also fluctuates between sections which have an certain argumentative quality and sections which have a much more cohesive sound. But even the argumentative sections have something that just barely keeps them together. Conversely, the cohesive sections have something that’s a little bit off about them and I hope that this reflects that sort of gray area that occupies all of these divisions.
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