CAS (2017):
for amplified piccolo flute, contrabass clarinet, octave pedals, and low sine tones
premiered by Ensemble Adapter, Harvard University, 2017/11/4
* this piece was engulfed by MAM later on, though its stand-alone version still exists
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This past May, in the last piece I presented here, there was a 7m13s section of white noise that cut through the middle of the work. CAS is, in a way, another view of those 7m13s.
Growing up, my aunt showed me and my brothers how, when putting a seashell to our ears, we could hear the memory of the ocean inside of it. This was before my aunt cut down the cas tree in her backyard.
Program note from the premiere at Harvard, 2017/11/4
with the neighbor's chicks at the foot of the cas tree ca. 1991