outpouring beneath my skin 2024
for mixed quartet, prepared snare drum, accessory instruments, and playback.
Written for and premiered by collective lovemusic
Premiere info
Niamh Dell, oboe and accessory instruments/objects
Adam Starkie, prepared contrabass clarinet and accessory instruments/objects
Emily Yabe, prepared violin and prepared snare drum
Léa Legros Pontal, prepared viola and prepared snare drum
Electronics performed by the composer.
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Recording of the premiere at Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR), 24 May 2024, Strasbourg, France.
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Special thanks to Iván Solano, Tom Mays, Guilherme Ribeiro, Fernando Strasnoy, and Lorenzo Paniconi.
Program notes
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"There are moments when the body is as numinous
as words, days that are the good flesh continuing"
(Robert Hass, Meditation at Lagunitas)
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Here, the essence of an unbridled force, a torrential overflow, finds itself cradled within the fragility of the ephemeral. The boundaries between the tangible and the transcendent, as the intricate network of pulses within. Or the interwoven tapestry of existence, where strength and vulnerability coalesce. Each sound, stretched string, broken voice, boundless burst of air.
These other veins coursing with the lifeblood of the ensemble. Instruments become vessels (of exploration), conduits of the unexpected. Within their resonant chambers lie worlds concealed (and waiting).
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"Implied inner palpability as transpersonal dictation
all works composed as a musical ark
as if rowing in an isthmus of lightning"
(Will Alexander, Inner Palpability)