This piece is more of an essay and an experiment in form. Before writing the piece, I was interested in how painters can create motion with radiating lines centered around a focal-point. Investigating these properties in classics like Delacriox’s La Liberté guidant le peuple and modern works like Michelle Grabner’s Untitled (2010), October 5th is composed with a bright focal-point at the center of the piece with radiating material coming from the peripheries. Keeping with the unifying technique in painting, all of the pitches are related to each other by set relationships with the ‘prime’ being the focal-point.
This was one the pieces performed on the 2017 New Music Gathering with the fantastic Mr. Nick Fox performing.
“Scatter My Ashes” exists at a crossroads between multiple styles, but emerges with something rich, textural, ambient, and riveting. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 7, 2022