music

PROGRAM NOTE:
I typically write music with fairly involved programmatic intentions along with forms that echo or
amplify them. However, I also enjoy music that simply unfolds a process or a ‘conceit’. Fabrication 21: Earful is a component part of a larger 32-movement cycle for various ensembles ranging from solos and duos to works for orchestra. These Fabrications explore more mechanical approaches to generating music. Each has a subtitle; a synonym of ‘fabrication’ which says something about the piece itself.

My initial plan for Fabrication 21: Earful was a 'mash-up' of Mozart and Xenakis . . . but that idea soon fell away, thank goodness. The piece is concerned with interruptions and syncopations, however, and perhaps these ideas are still ghosts of that original plan.

see also Fabrications