die bewegung der augen [2012, rev. 2014]

for nine instruments [ob, bcl, sax, gtr, pno, perc, vn, va, vc]

duration :: 13’

Commissioned by Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA for Ensemble Dal Niente

First performance :: Ensemble Dal Niente (cond. Michael Lewanski) — Darmstadt Ferienkürse, 24 July 2012

First performance of revised version :: Musikfabrik (cond. Christian Eggen) — WDR Funkhaus (Cologne, Germany), 6 April 2014

Recording :: Musikfabrik (cond. Eggen) :: Wergo WER 68652 [ label | arkivmusic ]

die bewegung der augen is four small attempted mechanisms: provisional local regularities, tentative lattices of simultaneity, obstacles and ornamented planes, networks forming and diffusing; constellations of approaches to a hazy framework of durations, gestures, instrumental groupings, and sometimes harmonies.  The constant tendency is to fade: into silence, into noise, into regularity, into impassivity.  “The movements of the eyes”—among and between similar gestures, looping restatements, angled perspectival boundaries.