Instrumentation: flute/bass fl, clarinet/bass cl, piano/keyboard, violin, viola, cello
First Performance: the DiMenna center for Classical Music, New YorK, NY, March 28, 2023. James Baker, conductor.
Commissioned for the Talea Ensemble by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program. Dedicated to Alex Lipowski and Jim Baker, and with gratitude to the brilliant musicians of Talea.
Duration: 18 minutes
“For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches – and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.”
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida