mayu (the great river)
instrumentation | string quartet
date | 2021
duration | c. 10'
premiere | commissioned by JACK Quartet through the JACK Studio program, premiered by JACK at Time:SPANS 2021 on 08.19.21
note | mayu (the great river) is inspired by Andean (South American Indigenous) cosmology & iconography through the lens of queerness, diaspora, and separation. The score works as an ecosystem for connecting living constellations, musical materials, and the individual/collective experience of time. The piece is a reflection on the multiple temporalities experienced and harnessed by displaced, erased, and structurally excluded peoples.
Mayu refers specifically to the Milky Way and the Great Rift that absorbs and rejuvenates all the waters of the world.
date | 2021
duration | c. 10'
premiere | commissioned by JACK Quartet through the JACK Studio program, premiered by JACK at Time:SPANS 2021 on 08.19.21
note | mayu (the great river) is inspired by Andean (South American Indigenous) cosmology & iconography through the lens of queerness, diaspora, and separation. The score works as an ecosystem for connecting living constellations, musical materials, and the individual/collective experience of time. The piece is a reflection on the multiple temporalities experienced and harnessed by displaced, erased, and structurally excluded peoples.
Mayu refers specifically to the Milky Way and the Great Rift that absorbs and rejuvenates all the waters of the world.
