"EX NIHILO". For two French horns and fixed format accompaniment. This piece is the result of the aggregation of five interconnected elements, distributed in the time and pitch domains by means of stochastic processes. Such processes include; gaussian distributions (guiding all elements of the horn parts), probabilistic random walks (both in the pitch domain as clouds of randomly walking ring modulations of the recorded text, and in the time domain as polyphonies of randomly walking selection points in certain voice samples), and as a guide for overall formal elements (a stochastic progression in the simplicity/complexity continuum).
Central to this piece of music are multiple texts that are present during the performance by means of recorded, sampled, and subsequently processed recitations. Each text required that the vocalist both employ particular subtleties of inflection and make specific contextual considerations in order to ensure that the resulting interpretation would best support my direction for the piece. These basic requirements were met and greatly exceeded by the talented vocalist Cody Quattlebaum, whose voice comprises the entirety of the vocal samples within this work. The two French horn parts were played by Kelsey Hutson and Clark Stewart.
Texts used in the genesis of this work:
"what would I do without this world" & its French counterpart "que ferais-je sans ce monde", as well as "Echo's Bones"; all by Samuel Beckett, trans. Beckett.
Mysterium Cosmographicum, Chapter VIII, "Quód Octaedron fit intra Venerem & Mercurium", by Johannes Kepler.
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