The Line Begins to Blur (2014)
for vibraphone and piano
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Zeca Lacerda, vibraphone
Ashlee Mack, piano
Ashlee Mack, piano
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The Line Begins to Blur, for vibraphone and piano, was commissioned by Zeca Lacerda for the BGSU/MACCM Bowling Green New Music Festival 2014. Completed in March 2014, the work lasts approximately nine minutes in one continuous movement. After an opening section of solo vibraphone articulating evenly-spaced staccato notes, the piano enters with unisons that break up the formerly-steady rhythm. As the work continues, the piano introduces sustained notes and additional space between musical events. Eventually, staccato notes disappear from the texture and all notes are relatively long. Vibraphone notes become increasingly rare and ultimately stop completely, leaving the piano alone, recalling the same pitches that the vibraphone played solo at the opening, now in reverse order and with extremely long note-values. The title is a lyric that appears multiple times on the 2005 album With Teeth, by Nine Inch Nails.