Shrinking world/expanding - Josh Levine

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From "Cartographies of Time" - University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fall 2020

"At the root of this piece’s conception was noticing how my parents’ worlds changed as they got old, how some things seemed to close in on them but time somehow opened up. Such thoughts manifest themselves in the piece through various interlaced processes of compression and rarefaction, and the changing weights of silence and resonance.

The piece unfolds in two distinct sections, the first (measures 1-137) implementing a set of diverse instruments selected from Sean Dowgray’s personal collection, and the second played entirely on a Thai gong. The sections sound radically different from each other, but the second one is, in fact, a revisiting of the first, laying bare its predecessor’s core temporal structure (formerly articulated by the crotales) in shrunken form. The second part uses different points and modes of attack in place of the original three layers of metal, stone and wood sounds; it also echoes much of the first section’s activity profile, albeit in extremely approximate ways. It is as if we have seen an image up close, but in memory can only imagine it at a great distance."

-Josh Levine, program note

joshlevine-composer.com/
seandowgray.com
uaf.edu/music/

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