On Connecticut Naturalism
Michael Gatonska
About this work:
Materials for this work were compiled into a notebook while on hikes or mountain biking through various parks in Connecticut. These notes were used as the basis for the compositions architecture, and the composition is built with a series of streams taken from the notes. Whatever their contents may be (linear, harmonic,etc.), they continually appear in multiple combinations and formations, in order to create a constant refreshment and stratification of sound forms from beginning to end. Through superimpositions and continually refreshed explorative sources, one stream may extend over two or three others before exhausting or transforming itself. To aid in trying to create a seamless musical web, new musical materials will appear with older fragments or streams, generating various transformations, juxtapositions, simultanaeities, and colorings. The composition pushes toward a diverse levels of relationships, rather than a single or fixed point of view.
Version: Electric Cello Solo
Year composed: 2003
Duration: 00:30:19
Ensemble type: Solo instrument, non-keyboard
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