Room

For Flute, Alto Saxophone, Cello, Piano, and Percussion

You are set in a Room. The only source of light is from a single window high above your head, letting in just a sliver of moonlight.

drip.

Your attention is pulled onto the sound of water, dripping intermittently. Becoming more aware of the silence, you begin to hear your own...

breath.

it is too quiet. so much so that you can hear the ringing in your ears. The sounds are now coalescing in your thoughts.

listening.

its becoming more difficult to parse out the sounds - there is too much. its more than unnerving now. it’s uncomfortable, but you can’t stop listening. lean back. close your eyes. concentrate. you take a few deep breaths as the sounds coalesce before it...

clicks.

As a composition, Room is a practice in patience. The piece was conceptualized as a reflection of sleepless nights, and how every sound on the boundary of silence can be heard. The piece develops these sounds in each individual instrument, but also in an overall textural, harmonic, and melodic development over the course of the piece.

Room for flute, alto sax, cello, piano, and percussion

$30.00