Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, quartertone piano, quartertone accordion, quartertone guitar, violin, cello
Program Notes:
Cheat Sadness/Enjoy Suffering (2020) explores the radical splintering of sound from pitch into noise. Conceived of as a triptych – like many Francis Bacon paintings - Cheat Sadness/Enjoy Suffering represents three side by side portraits, and is an homage to Tatsumi Hijikata (土方巽1928-1986) and Kazuo Ohno (大野一雄1906-2010), two of the founding figures of the modern Japanese dance form, Butoh (舞踏). Its hallmarks include (but are not limited to) playful/grotesque imagery, taboos, extreme and/or absurd environments. Most butoh exercises use imagery to varying degrees: from the razorblades and insects of Ankoku Butoh, to Dairakudakan's threads and water jets, to Seiryukai's rod in the body. A certain tension between control and uncontrol is present through many of the exercises. Their writings, choreography, and dances helped inform the sonic images that I created.
Cheat Sadness/Enjoy Suffering was composed for the “Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival 2020” at the University of Pittsburgh, and is dedicated to Finland’s MikroEnsemble.
It is 9 minutes in length.
Parts & Score will be emailed to you after purchased is completed.
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