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Release Date: 2020-10-12Label: Longform Editions
"After reading about architect Anne Tyng and her work, I became interested in the platonic solids, the five polyhedra for which each face is the same regular polygon, and the same number of polygons meet at each corner. Plato wrote about these and assigned each with an element: earth, air, fire, water and ether (quintessence). I've begun using these shapes to create graphic scores, and for this piece, I placed them in the following order: Icosahedron (water); Dodecahedron (quintessence); Icosahedron + Dodecahedron; Cube (earth); Octahedron (air); Cube + Octahedron; Tetrahedron (fire).I sought to portray sound that evokes stasis and movement at the same time, and very generally, to explore the perception of sound through dimensional space and time.
I'm fascinated by what happens to my perception of time when I'm listening to music, particularly work that is minimal and long, whether it be rhythmically active or still and duration-based. My regular and deeply embedded sense of rhythm and time is replaced by complete absence, and when I'm brought back to regular rhythm (when the piece is finished), it feels like both (or neither) an eternity and a brief moment have passed. As well, when listening this way, through repetition or duration, the details of sounds become very large, changes in sound are monumental; I find myself getting lost in galaxies inside the minutiae of something my ear has attached to. What begins as a passive and placid listening experience becomes a quite dramatic and multifaceted journey. Listening to the same piece again yields a different experience."