white blooms : scattered blue
2005
voice and piano
text by Hillary Gravendyk Burrill
This piece was a wonderful collaboration with poet Hillary Gravendyk Burrill that began in a seminar taught by Robert Hass and William Bolcom. It was a tremendous opportunity, not only to get to know Robert Hass and William Bolcom, but also to meet and work with several excellent poets in the UCB community.
For sometime prior to the composition of this piece I had been struggling to give voice to some subtle concepts relating to musical time, texture, and rhythm. In white blooms: scattered blue I feel I was finally able to articulate these ideas in a satisfying fashion. In particular, in this composition, I deal with durational and rhythmic aleatory and its spectrum of problems and possibilities.
1. "stones glow..."
2. "something says..."
3. "rustle of salt pine..."
4. "white rocked..."
5. "whorls of shell..."