wind down
Ketty Nez
About this work:
Written in the summer of 2006 for cellist Michael Reynolds, a good friend and colleague at Boston University, "wind down" explores erasure and ways to unravel musical textures (with a wink to the opening theme of Ravel’s Piano Trio). Abstractly defined algorithms of intervallic content and tempo curves generated the raw musical fabric. Following compositional work involved freely modifying and “individuating” this material into various types of gestures, fragmentary allusions, and tip-of-the-tongue associations, tickling the ear and memory of the listener.
Year composed: 2006
Duration: 00:11:00
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice
Instrumentation: 1 Piano, 1 Cello