Spaces (2021)

for solo vibraphone

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PROGRAM NOTE

Spaces, scored for solo vibraphone, was composed in 2021 for percussionist Tony Oliver in celebration of more than thirty years of musical collaboration and friendship. Though the work has a duration of approximately 80 minutes if performed in its entirety, its eight distinct sections may be programmed individually or in suites. As each 10-minute section unfolds, one collection of three pitch-classes is gradually combined with a second trichord to become a group of six, at which point the three original pitches disappear from the hexachord one by one until only the second trichord remains. The rhythms of each section articulate a ratio of 9:10:11, providing a kaleidoscope of varying temporal space between musical events. Commonalities throughout the pitch-class collections that inform the work's large-scale harmonic structure might inspire a listener to hear each new phrase as a dream-like memory of what has come before.