bass clarinet, electric guitar, bike wheel, violin, cello
in disoriented gardens, invasive wax eats flowers for ensemble takes place within an imagined ecosystem, whose disoriented internal logic functions in a dream-like, irrational manner, creating an environment where events grow to absurd proportions, creating imbalanced, juxtaposed situations.
Contradiction is welcome and necessary to the well-being of this environment. Decaying material interacts with ripeness, mechanisms interact with organic matter. Interaction between seemingly contradictory material carves paves the way for strangeness, ambiguity, and humor.
Throughout the work, listeners zoom in on this environment and out again, as it grows and
changes. At times, they witness the entire environment functioning in equilibrium, and at other moments, the ungainly growth of a singular being. In imagining this errant ecosystem, I reflect on the irrationality and playfulness of the environment that surrounds us.
premiered by ensemble mosaik
Christian Vogel, bass clarinet
Alexey Potapov, electric guitar
Adam Weisman, percussion/bike wheel
Khachatur Kanayan, violin
Mathis Mayr, cello
Premiere Dec 2024, Busoni Composition Prize Ceremony.