Collocation

for String Quartet, 2019 - 8” or 12”

written for the FLUX Quartet, SoundSCAPE New Music Exchange 2019

Purchase Score

Collocation is a term in linguistics that refers to words or phrases that appear together with an unusually high frequency. This also includes words that elucidate a new meaning when paired together: “strong tea” has a different meaning than “powerful tea,” even if both words are synonymous. The societal and historical use and application of the connotations that those words carry convey a newly understood meaning when paired together. In “Collocation,” I try to create new relationships with different musical materials to show how bizarre and comforting it is to create meaning when the materials are extracted and combined in a new way.

8 minute version

Performed by the FLUX Quartet:

  • Tom Chiu, violin

  • Conrad Harris, violin

  • Max Mandel, viola

  • Felix Fan, cello

12 minute version

Performed by:

  • Cameron Richardson, violin

  • Ian Smith, viola

  • Ro Bonilla-Piedra, viola

  • Charlotte Dennison, cello