blossom & furl (2016)

Premiered by Andrew Noseworthy and Aeryn Santillan at Provincetown Playhouse (New York, NY).

program notes:

For this piece I drew upon inspiration from time lapses of flowers; long, slow, and organic unfolding, or blossoming, of both musical material and use of the instruments. Each guitar begins playing only on the G string (one of the middle strings), and gradually incorporates neighboring strings until the full range of the instrument is used, then disassembles in a similar fashion. Blossom and furl also explores the cognitive dissonance that the listener experiences from antiphonal placement and the different rates of development and deconstruction that happens between the two parts.

For this piece I drew upon inspiration from time lapses of flowers; long, slow, and organic unfolding, or blossoming, of both musical material and use of the instruments. Each guitar begins playing only on the G string (one of the middle strings), and gradually incorporates neighboring strings until the full range of the instrument is used, then disassembles in a similar fashion. Blossom and furl also explores the cognitive dissonance that the listener experiences from antiphonal placement and the different rates of development and deconstruction that happens between the two parts.