Compressor

for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, and cello
Commissioned for yMusic
Premiere: yMusic
December 4, 2019 - Glorya Kauffman School of Dance - Los Angeles, CA
Duration: 6'

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.