Material
for wind quintet (2019) | Recording: Parkside Winds
Material was written in the fall of 2019 in Los Angeles, for the Parkside Winds.
Much as a wind quintet consists of five timbrally dissimilar instruments, the material for this piece draws from disparate source traditions. Both the instruments and the musical ideas recombine without altering the integrity of their individuality. Thus, a space emerges for differences to coexist and interact.
“We were concerned with the seeing of the materials for what they were: the woodness of the wood; the sandiness of the sand.”
–Alison and Peter Smithson