music by yourself
instrumentation | string quartet + other performers on the program
date | 2022
duration | c. 10'+
premiere | commissioned by the Kronos Performing Arts, premiere upcoming at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 04.23.22
note | I love listening to music alone, especially late at night - details feel different, somehow heavier and closer to skin. I love the focus of a dark space, with sounds emerging almost alive (even in earbuds). Memory springs forth too, I have found.
In live performance, this dark feels like another material to play through & around. Its presence asks for a trust that there are other people really out there, while giving the intimate gift of music alone; closeness in distance.
In forms unfolding from memory and shared motion, music by yourself is about connecting to people who are and aren’t still here.
date | 2022
duration | c. 10'+
premiere | commissioned by the Kronos Performing Arts, premiere upcoming at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 04.23.22
note | I love listening to music alone, especially late at night - details feel different, somehow heavier and closer to skin. I love the focus of a dark space, with sounds emerging almost alive (even in earbuds). Memory springs forth too, I have found.
In live performance, this dark feels like another material to play through & around. Its presence asks for a trust that there are other people really out there, while giving the intimate gift of music alone; closeness in distance.
In forms unfolding from memory and shared motion, music by yourself is about connecting to people who are and aren’t still here.
