Looking forward to the premiere of my piece De Motu Cogitationis for Clarinet in Bb, Trombone, Vibraphone, Cello and electronics at the concert entitled AUGENBLICK. The concert features premieres of new contemporary music for instruments and electronics which take advantage of the Faculty of Humanities building of Charles University in Prague, which has a unique spatial character and intoxicating layers of reverberation within its construction.
Program Note:
De Motu Cogitationis, or On Thought’s Motion is predicated on transporting the conceptually abstract motion of our thought/thoughts into a physical space. In the work a musical thought or idea may be constituted as a single tone, individual gesture, a full phrase or anything in-between. This “thought content” is then processed by the “thinking system” composed of the four instrumentalists and four speakers.
In our own “thinking system” thoughts and feelings can be distorted, morphed and transformed through conscious and subconscious processing. The system present in De Motu Cogitationis is no different as musical thoughts may experience any level of transformation through their processing or recall. As you experience this piece I invite you to investigate your own processing and memory of the sonic experience, reflecting on why certain moments and emotions may stand out in your memory.
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