music

SCORE

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 25: Carbon 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.

Fabrication 25: Carbon is a ‘black MIDI’ work for acoustic instruments in which repeated simple materials become more and more complex and covered up by added inconsequential noise as if layer after layer of black dots were being laid over the score.

see also Fabrications