…delicate texture of time… (2012–13)

Flute, clarinet, saxophone, two percussion, violin, viola, and cello · 13′

Commissioned by the ECO Ensemble with support from the Mellon Foundation.

Recordings

Studio recording · Bandcamp

Live, Venice Biennale, 2014 · Bandcamp

Program note

…what I am concerned with is the delicate texture of Time, void of all embroidered events. […] Physiologically the sense of Time is a sense of continuous becoming, and if ‘becoming’ has a voice, the latter might be, not unnaturally, a steady vibration;

Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor

Score and materials

Score (PDF, 2 MB)
Parts (zip, 1.1 MB)
Click tracks (zip, 284 KB)
Program note, ECO Ensemble (PDF)
Sketch, pages 1–39 (PDF, 54 MB)
Sketch, pages 40–78 (PDF, 59 MB)

For performance materials not listed here, write to [email protected].

Performances

2014 · Venice Biennale, Italy · ECO Ensemble
February 23, 2013 · Berkeley, CA · ECO Ensemble (premiere)

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