for Piano, Percussion, Flexible Instrumentation, and Audio-sensitive Light Fixture(s), 2019 - Open Duration

written for the Terminus Ensemble, 2019 SoundNow! Festival

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“There Is A Light” is an interactive, semi-improvised piece of music for an ensemble of flexible instrumentation. The piano and percussion parts are given loose instructions about what to play and how to play it; however, the Ensemble parts are for a non-specified instrumentation and can be made up of any number of mixed players. In “There Is A Light,” the sound of the percussionist and pianist playing their instruments triggers the Audio-sensitive lighting, which translates the information of the sound into a related color. Each Ensemble member is then assigned a color that corresponds to one that is shown on The Light. When their corresponding color is shown on The Light, that triggers the ensemble member to perform a musical gesture. Since the piece is semi-improvised, the “rules” of each formal section are fixed, but the manner in which the gestures are to be interpreted is left up to the ensemble performers’ individual musical discretion.

Terminus Ensemble - Atlanta, GA

UGA Contemporary Chamber Ensemble - Athens, GA