1) The quartet idea is out-- there's not a lot of time left before the show, and I'd rather have this project be slightly smaller and totally solid rather than too big and under-rehearsed. So it's me and Laura, or just me.
2) The piece has a title: Pasir. Needed it because programs were due today. The end of the piece is most likely going to draw on gamelan, so if this is music for the dance work Grain of Sand, why not go with the Indonesian word for sand? Good? Done.
3) Right now, the acoustic raw materials of the piece are...
... a flowerpot with some beans, and a vibraphone. (And a computer. You know me.)
While there are some lovely pieces for flowerpots-as-they-are (Rzewski's To The Earth, etc.), the flowerpot idea here comes from English composer James Wood via my friend Matt Apanius. But whereas Wood asks performers to hunt down a series of flowerpots tuned to precise pitches, I'm dumping this into a sampler and mangling it in any number of ways. Seems like an efficient and flexible way to bring sand-like sounds into the work. (The netting keeps the beans in the flowerpot as it swirls-- otherwise, messy.)
4) Meeting with the choreographers tonight for beginning-stage idea-bouncing. Hope they like it so far!
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