VOIDS

trumpet, trombone, soundtrack (stereo)

Premiered by Ne(x)tworks, June 6th, 2003 Chelsea Art Museum
Brian McWhorter - trumpet, CJM - trombone

Additional Performances:
ISSUE Project Room, Oct. 12, 2006 (Peter Evans - trumpet)
Roulette, December 8, 2006 (Nate Wooley - trumpet)

Program Note:

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VOIDS (2003) is a work in four short movements for improvising trumpet and trombone duo and sound tracks. A very early piece in my compositional life, VOIDS features a hybrid notational system utilizing improvising strategy and modules of conventional notation. It was premiered at Chelsea Art Museum, June 2003, during Ne(x)tworks' debut concert. The work is a somewhat oblique response to 9/11. Each movement deals with a single (meta)physical "void", forgotten or little considered spaces in an incessantly changing phenomenological realm known as Manhattan.