oggetti II

oggetti II (2021), written in Paris between November 17 and December 7, 2021 for the TACETi Ensemble and Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, is the second work in a larger cycle exploring concise musical objects, gestures, and formal constellations. Over time, my compositional process has become increasingly introspective and critical. oggetti II is an attempt to re-capture the spirit of my earlier works of a more spontaneous and economical nature. It was completed shortly after relocating to Europe once international travel again became possible, and utilizes field recordings captured in Krabi, Thailand where I spent the last seven months of the pandemic. oggetti I (Omaggio a Sciarrino) for wind quintet and antistasis for Ensemble Nikel were composed nearly simultaneously in a 10-day period during the summer of 2014 in NYC. Many concepts and compositional devices are shared, but not musical materials. antistasis, meaning opposition, refers to the repetition of a word or phrase in a different or contrary sense. This was poetically translated through repetition of a small number of musical gestures, or objects, continually recurring and recontextualized by the composite. oggetti I and now oggetti II function in a similar manner, drawing upon limited materials reconfigured in various ways, something like a musical jigsaw puzzle.