With Each Breathing (2015)
String Quartet
Duration: 10’
Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Premiered August 7, 2015 at St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, NM.
FLUX Quartet
This piece is an appropriation and reinterpretation/ obfuscation of some of the sounds and gestures from the inner movements of Beethoven's Opp. 130 & 131. It deals with the expression of breath through music (inhaling, exhaling, panting, pranayama, etc.), the strength in fragility, and my love and fragmented memories of Beethoven's late Quartets. The title, With Each Breathing, is taken from e.e.cumming’s poem, somewhere i have never traveled.
The form of this piece is a scherzo / rondo hybrid form. Each time material returns, it is more fragmented, like a hazy memory.