wind(ows)
Ketty Nez
About this work:
Written in the summer of 2004, composition on "wind(ows)" began after a long continuous road trip through the American West. Gazing at otherworldly rock formations and desert sights which flew past my car window as I put in long miles under a hot sun, I started to muse . . . unrelated thoughts suddenly appeared through “windows” which cut into ongoing ruminations. I seized upon this concept as a possible compositional idea, allowing my ear to similarly jump among various types of music: bebop, Balinese gamelan and the rapid interlocking patterns of kotekan; hyper-expressive nineteenth-century string music, with a wink at the repertoire of piano trios; sneak (?) appearances of tonality amidst landscapes in chromatic “grey.” The music expresses the incongruity between precise divisions of measured time – the endless tick of clocks – and the whimsical, inconsistent nature of the human experience of time.
Year composed: 2004
Duration: 00:15:00
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Piano Trio
Instrumentation: 1 Violin, 1 Cello