Time seems to pass. (2012)
for two pianos
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Time seems to pass, for two pianos, was commissioned by the Khasma Piano Duo and composed in June 2012 during a three-work artist residency at Grand Canyon National Park. The composition exists in 8-minute, 13-minute, and 37-minute versions. Over the duration of the piece, three pitches (C-sharp, E, and D) are gradually joined by three others (G, F-sharp, and B). The title is the first sentence of Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist, a novella that concerns itself with the ambiguity of perception, the fragility of memory, and the passing of time.