available stops
for viola and cello
2021
instrumentation: viola and cello
duration: 5''
premiere performance: Sept. 18 2021, DCTorium, Chicago. EarTaxi Festival; with the Quixote Duo (Sixto Franco and Juan Horie)
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for viola and cello
2021
instrumentation: viola and cello
duration: 5''
premiere performance: Sept. 18 2021, DCTorium, Chicago. EarTaxi Festival; with the Quixote Duo (Sixto Franco and Juan Horie)
available stops is a work that takes art of organ registrations—with all of its possibility for timbre
variation—as a point of departure. This is heard in the constant change of color for the hocketing
unison notes and fi gurations, as well as an extended “mixture" stops section, with its constant parallel
motion voicing and orchestration. Finally the “organ" reference is almost literal in that I use performer
vocalization as another kind of registration/color palette—a technique explored in much of my recent
work. The music is written for the Quixote Duo, premiered at the 2021 EarTaxi
Festival in Chicago.
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