for baritone, trumpet, bass clarinet, and trombone

written for loadbang

Tyler Bouque – baritone voice
Andy Kozar – trumpet
Adrián Sandí – bass clarinet
William Lang – trombone

program note
The title of this piece was taken from a visual poem of the same name by the German-born artist and poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. There are two iterations of the poem, and they each appear in a diagram form that creates a visual relationship amongst a series of words such as “base,” “world,” “immured,” “circle container,” and “cosmic build.” The words and their respective associations are used to guide the eyes in an unbroken line of motion, where Freytag-Loringhoven’s thematic ideas and materials are constantly shifting in weight and perspective. Her actual words themselves were not used in my piece, but I instead tried to follow this concept of rotating and reorienting the same material, in hopes of discovering new perspectives on a single object.

performance history
03/02/2023 – loadbang at OPERA America, NYC
04/10/2024 – loadbang at Cornell University