Drift
Dorothy Hindman
About this work:
Drift is concerned with the perceptual dilemma that no matter how hard one tries, it is not possible to
fully focus on a piece of music from beginning to end without having other thoughts or ideas drift in,
or rather, it is not possible not to drift in thought while listening to a piece. There are a number of devices in Drift that attempt to force the listener to constantly return their attention to the piece, including hooks, repetition, and timbral effects. There are also internal relationships between instruments and between formal sections that play off the idea of drift, such as one instrument going off on a different tangent than the others in the quartet, or imitative ideas where one instrument follows another canonically, or formal variations that continuously develop an idea. Drift was written for the Lithium Saxophone Quartet in 2002 at their request.
Year composed: 2002
Duration: 00:05:18
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Saxophone Quartet
Instrumentation: 1 Soprano Saxophone, 1 Alto Saxophone, 1 Tenor Saxophone, 1 Baritone Saxophone
Instrumentation notes: Requires mouth pops in all parts.