Tuesday Night New Music: Final Concert of 2020–2021

Alexander Matheson | Beginning to Remember (2021)

Ko Muramatsu | Syntax (2020)

The epicenter of this piece is to show how music can reflect events, actions, or language that happens in real life; each different motion has the individual sense of time while all of the motions occur on the same constant flow of time. This difference between the subjective and objective sense of time is unconsciously resolved by gestures of the individual. In this respect, while several distinct rhythmic elements constantly flow in this piece, the gestures of the player have an influence on each note and sound, which connects those distinctive elements to create one idea as a whole.
– Ko Muramatsu

Yunqi Li | The Moving Starry Night (2020)

This piece was inspired by the stories of Vincent van Gogh and Vincent van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night". Vincent van Gogh is one of my favorite painters. In my opinion, Vincent van Gogh was a sincere artist who had a lonely life. He tried his best to express himself though few people understood him during the lifetime. I am touched by his passion and his dedication to art. Therefore, I wrote down my feelings in the score. The general idea of this piece is the transformation and the combination of two themes. The first theme imitates the movements of the starry night (imagination). The second theme has“struggle” characteristics with deep emotion. In the ending, the color is in a“mixture", showing a sense of sadness and release.  
– Yunqi Li

Brooks Clarke | The Unbearable Anxiousness of Being (2021)

In this work for string quartet, I explore the feelings of anxiousness and the growing existential crises that I have felt over the past year. The very act of gaining a feeling for a sense of being human at times has been a challenge throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, as well as the life transitions that I have gone through this year. This piece is a testament to those feelings of anxiety, sleepless nights, nervous ticks, and twitches that remind us that sometimes our senses are reminding us that we are alive and well, however we like it or not.                                                                 
– Brooks Clarke

Lila Wildy Quillin | Fragment on Romance (2021)

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Marie Carroll | living soul (2021)

Kristian Josifoski | Le Vampire (2021)

Text
 

Toi qui, comme un coup de couteau,
Dans mon coeur plaintif es entrée;
Toi qui, forte comme un troupeau
De démons, vins, folle et parée,

De mon esprit humilié
Faire ton lit et ton domaine;
— Infâme à qui je suis lié
Comme le forçat à la chaîne,

Comme au jeu le joueur têtu,
Comme à la bouteille l'ivrogne,
Comme aux vermines la charogne
—Maudite, maudite sois-tu!

J'ai prié le glaive rapide
De conquérir ma liberté,
Et j'ai dit au poison perfide
De secourir ma lâcheté.

Hélas! le poison et le glaive
M'ont pris en dédain et m'ont dit:
"Tu n'es pas digne qu'on t'enlève
À ton esclavage maudit,

Imbécile! — de son empire
Si nos efforts te délivraient,
Tes baisers ressusciteraient
Le cadavre de ton vampire!"

Charles Baudelaire

Kurt Vetterlein | Chaos Suite (2020)

Vacillations
Equilibrium
Entropy

I was inspired to write this piece after reading author and scientist James Gleick's early works on the subject of the chaos theory - a science which is ever present in our daily lives, and one which defines how we interact with the world around us. I believe that out of this chaos comes art and music – an attempt to structure and make sense of what's happening in the world. These three movements are my effort to represent the seemingly random events taking place every moment of our lives. When we look closer at these events, which may appear chaotic, they are in fact part of a larger structure.                                                                         
– Kurt Vetterlein

Robin Meeker-Cummings | Ersatz (2021)

“The relationship between the virtual and the actual is one of surprise, for the virtual promises something different to the actual that it produces, and always contains in it the potential for something other than the actual” – Elizabeth Grosz

Kyle Quarles | Fragments 15.0-15.7 (Ockeghem Anamorph)