Compressor

for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, and cello

Duration: 6’

Written for yMusic

Premiere: December 4, 2019 - Glorya Kauffman School of Dance - Los Angeles, CA yMusic


Compressor is a piece that looks at the way material reacts when parameters become forcefully constricted. The piece revolves around a game of textural upheaval between two gestures. As each gesture develops, it accrues rust and begins to become compressed in one parameter or another until the process ushers in the opposing material. This back-and-forth continues until the piece bucks its own programming and begins to expand, rather than compress. Compressor was written for yMusic.

performance history

-February 4, 2022 - Florida State University Festival of New Music - Tallahassee, FL - Polymorphia
-June 19, 2021 - Livestream - Boston, MA - Boston New Music Initiative
-February 1, 2020 - Flux Factory - Queens, NY - Resonant Refractions
-December 5, 2019 - Glorya Kauffman School of Dance - Los Angeles, CA - yMusic
-December 4, 2019 - Glorya Kauffman School of Dance - Los Angeles, CA - yMusic


program notes

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