"...for all of us who are alive there are those times when you have to carry your life as you've already lived it and know it to some other place where you have to present it the way you already know it to some kind of public of others you think is meaningful."
12 minutes long, the piece has geometric symbols for considerations by each player for certain moments within the piece where one or more players are playing independantly or ensemble, or somewhere in between. Also, there are descriptive words meant to influence a player at a given moment in how to play their part, depending on how they interpret the word: mangled, dark, primitive, brilliant, awkward, disintegrate, insistent, calm, constrictive, empty, dark, restrained, coolness, and moisture.
There are large rectangles that represent moments when a player is soloing, and at those times the other players are providing background sound. The most difficult moments are when the entire ensemble have to play three notes simultaneously and are quiet for a brief period together.
Understandably, it sounded like a trainwreck mostly, but we have one more practice period before the Saturday reception at which time we will perform the piece at 6pm.
This is not a traditional piece of music for me. I took piano lessons as a teenager, and was in the junior and high school bands, so am familiar with scores, and musical notations and the difficulty in playing an instrument so that the sounds match those of other players playing similar scores, or matching the sound I think I should be making according to my memory of the work by someone else.
This piece is more like the kind of artwork I enjoy making, the type where the interpretation and the production/performance is the result of interpretation on behalf of the artist/musician and on behalf of the audience. The result depends on how every participant perceives the work in the moment.
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