My First Summer in the Sierra for antiphonal brass choir and percussion (2014) - 5'

My First Summer in the Sierra for antiphonal brass choir and percussion (2014) - 5'PROGRAM NOTE: This piece was first sketched during a 6 week road trip through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. At the time I was reading the book My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir from which this piece takes its title. I was traveling through the area that inspired the book, almost exactly 100 years after it was written, and reflecting on the changes that environment has undergone over those 100 years. The antiphonal quality of this

Alaska during performance

LIBRARY INFO:

With their ultrasonic chirps

The video and electronics from the original percussion piece was used as the structure for a live improvisation concert of eight musicians that will compliment the fixed video and electronics

The rock field had a fundamental tone of B flat

rather it directly connects the visual and auditory experience with the current natural energy of west Texas

the software uses four sets of data (one data set for each season) that is then turned into 16-20 seconds of graphical notation that occur between the major sections of the piece

listen to Ringing Rocks

Premiere: Bowling Green State University Student Composition Concert

PROGRAM NOTE

Click to Download Score Sample – PDF

and projected graphical score from Thomas Rex Beverly on Vimeo