in nomines (1-4), surrogates, limbs, etc. [2018]

for clarinet and string trio

duration :: 35’

First performance :: Musikfabrik — direct-to-video recording, Studio des Ensemble Musikfabrik, Köln, 17 November 2020 [released 23 November 2021]

Four readings of Taverner’s famous “In nomine”, the one from the “Benedictus” of his Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas; joined, overlaid, expanded and troped with surrogates, recirculating rereadings, and limbs, momentary expansions, hesitations, gettings lost, forgettings: the whole rendered in the faintest, most indistinguishable grays and off-whites on old, tattered, worm-eaten paper.