Of and Between (2020)

I wrote this piece in response to Judith Schaecter’s stained glass work entitled “The Battle of Carnival and Lent,” after spending some time with it in Rochester, NY, at the Memorial Art Gallery. Among the things I find remarkable about Schaecter’s piece is the way that it supports and rewards my curiosity about changing the scale of watching. Of and Between imagines an analogous kind of hearing. We are on the surface of the music, but then broaden our listening gaze to the larger gesture. Or we are listening on a larger-scale level, but some color or surface move pulls us in. Back and forth, accumulating some sense of the whole picture, the whole claim. I’m grateful to fivebyfive for commissioning this piece and for their advocacy for my music in general.