2020
There are winners and then…is a piece for two solo bassoons. Both players are instructed to play through the piece as fast as they can but must playing all notes. Quotations help the audience keep track of each players place. (see There are winners… [2019] for a violin version featuring members fro JACK quartet)
Let's Eat An Orange [the home version] originally for live performances with participants as they ate oranges and followed the score indicating when they should to peel, de-segment and eat, this version was recored in 2020 for an orange eating experience in the home. It’s most similar to the performance version at VU symposium in June of 2019 in Park City, Utah. Participants are following a binary model (Observation or Action) and through the experience of following the score and eating the orange I hope there is a feeling of frustration, perhaps this is a stand-in for another frustration: when we’re told the composer is infallible, that binaries socially constructed. The piece also activates five of the senses.
Brushy Tremelo- routine daily rituals are improved with folied cello.
I sent postcards to my friends and asked them to "draw one measure of music" however they liked. I then interpreted their measure of music and arranged them into a piece. While working on it, I found myself thinking about the friends and what kind of conversations, similarities, interests or arguments they would have if they were together and then there’s a big party with all 29 people at the end. The piece was a perfect COVID collaboration.
Content description: Postcards with the image of Bernal Hill in San Francisco have been altered by friends. Some have been drawn on with sharpie markers and pens or paint, others have been scratched or have children's stickers of dinosaurs or witches and candy corn. (one was drawn on by a baby tortoise with a markers attached to its shell) Each piece of music is accompanied by the postcard. As the music gets more chaotic at the end, the images of the postcards also change quicker. There are only two postcards shown at one time.