Time Machine Hyperboles (2023)
Instrumentation: flute, bass clarinet, percussion, violin, cello
Duration: 7 minutes
Duration: 7 minutes
Program Note:
Time Machine Hyperboles is a long title for a short piece, but it captures the underpinning duality of the music and its non sequitur behavior. The work jumps between two very distinct kinds of music that utilize exaggeration. I liken this juxtaposition to two scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Astronaut David Bowman is pulled into an intense, disorienting whirlwind of bright light. Flashes of line and color fly by at a breakneck speed and collapse into alien forms and landscapes. Immediately following, David finds himself in an ornate, white bedroom with eighteenth century French furnishing and a clean floor of glowing square panels. Certainly, two very different visual environments! But what might have happened if David could travel back and forth between these places? With wormholes of its own, Time Machine Hyperboles explores expedited travel by soundscape.
Time Machine Hyperboles is a long title for a short piece, but it captures the underpinning duality of the music and its non sequitur behavior. The work jumps between two very distinct kinds of music that utilize exaggeration. I liken this juxtaposition to two scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Astronaut David Bowman is pulled into an intense, disorienting whirlwind of bright light. Flashes of line and color fly by at a breakneck speed and collapse into alien forms and landscapes. Immediately following, David finds himself in an ornate, white bedroom with eighteenth century French furnishing and a clean floor of glowing square panels. Certainly, two very different visual environments! But what might have happened if David could travel back and forth between these places? With wormholes of its own, Time Machine Hyperboles explores expedited travel by soundscape.