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Koti Jaddu’s submission to the Young Composer Score call reads right out of a book of preludes
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Firmly rooted in the American Mavericks tradition, this work fuses hymns with polytonality and misalignment, a la Charles Ives.
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Mitch Weakley’s piece “Keys, Strings, Clothespins” investigates a C pentatonic scale with a flattened sixth step (Ab) through the lens of a prepared piano, and its consequent timbres.
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Matthew Kennedy’s “Until I Say ‘When'” is a breathtaking exposure of space, timbre, and mood, that is both playful and hypnotic.
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“STRING II was made with “real” sounds – sounds that I recorded both in my studio and in the field. I used only the oddest bits of these recordings to go ahead and represent something else. Something that EVERYONE hears differently – its interpretation is up for grabs. I feel that’s important.”
Read MoreDale Osterman’s piece Ouroboros depicts the serpent that devours its own tail.
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There are times when musical notation simply does not suffice to both technically manifest, nor artistically describe, the music that is heard. This is the case with Diogo Carvalho’s piece Reveal.
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