8 Scattered Thoughts – Experiments in Failure (2022) – for Tuba, Baritone Saxophone, Marimba, Piano and Electronics Processing

Movements:
1. Invitation from a Flower
2. Mad Dash
3. ♔♕Σ€€€ robbers of life $$$Σ♕♔
4. Frustrated Funk
5. Peach, Plum, Pear, and Damson

premiered @ UVA Graduate Composers Concert, 30 April 2022

composed for: the The Tokyo Gen’on Project / No Collective

notes:
This work is a depiction of thoughts, explorations, musings, and personal experiences having moved to Charlottesville, VA for a PhD program. Each of the five movements explores a different compositional technique/approach. The overall structure of the composition mirrors a personal narrative which includes striving, failure, perseverance, doubt, and understanding. The five movements are titled: ‘Invitation from a Flower,’ ‘Mad Dash,’ ‘♔♕Σ€€€ robbers of life $$$Σ♕♔,’ ‘Frustrated Funk’ (arrangement of Adapta’s ‘Drapse Harmonic”), and ‘Peach, Plum, Pear, and Damson.’ Composed during the COVID19 pandemic, the video version of 8 Scattered Thoughts — Experiments in Failure reflects Zoom’s visual presentation aesthetics.

score:
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