platforms (2015)
Written for the JACK quartet and premiered at Provincetown Playhouse (New York, NY).
program notes:
So many late evenings of mine have been spent on subway platforms, desperately waiting for a local train to take me home. It only took a few months of being a New Yorker to become desensitized to the constant motion and noise of subway stations (and almost every corner of New York, for that matter), but I could never escape the anxiousness of being on a platform where nearly nothing was happening; when there was no train coming or going, not another person in sight, and nothing to give me any tangible perception of time.
Perhaps enough of these occasions led me to create this piece; where the tension is not derived from any sort of overstimulation, but rather not enough.