May 20, 2009
New Piece - Grigri for Saxophone Quartet
I've finished a piece commissioned by Brian Kauth for his group, the Traverser Saxophone Quartet. It's my most radical piece since I stopped writing complex atonal music back in the 80's, full of incredibly wrong notes that are intended to sound incredibly right. There are quartertones throughout the piece serving both as coloristic and as harmonic devices. The piece, also captures something of the rainy mangrove jungle we live in the middle of down here on Sanibel Island. When we were looking for a title, last night, it's swampiness reminded us of New Orleans and their Haitian voodoo traditions, thus the name, in its intentionally illiterate spelling, Grigri.
Grigri for Saxophone Quartet - Synthesized Realization
Grigri for Saxophone Quartet - Draft Score