a figure traced in the dark (2016)

Snare drum, glockenspiel, voice, and glass

Originally composed for Fabio Oliveira.

A point of interest for me as a composer has been the desire to create a music that focuses on the becoming of sound, and the impression of form. This is to say that I am interested in focusing on the instability of a pitch being formed, the suggestion of a pulse or regularities, and the skeletal semblance of a discrete structure. Rather than explicitly showing a logical process, or coalescing a form with swarms of information, I wanted to present as little as I could, but suggest that what one encounters in this piece, is merely the surface of something immense, and perhaps volatile.