Time Machine Hyperboles is a long title for a short piece, but it captures the underpinning duality of the music and its non sequitur behavior. The work jumps between two very distinct kinds of music that utilize exaggeration. I liken this juxtaposition to two scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Astronaut David Bowman is pulled into an intense, disorienting whirlwind of bright light. Flashes of line and color fly by at a breakneck speed and collapse into alien forms and landscapes. Immediately following, David finds himself in an ornate, white bedroom with eighteenth century French furnishing and a clean floor of glowing square panels. Certainly, two very different visual environments! But what might have happened if David could travel back and forth between these places? With wormholes of its own, Time Machine Hyperboles explores expedited travel by soundscape.
Recording Notes
April 15, 2023 : Kent State University : Kent, Ohio
NO EXIT NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Sean Gabriel, flute
Gunnar Owen Hirthe, bass clarinet
Luke Rinderknecht, percussion
Cara Tweed, violin
James Rhodes, viola
Nicholas Diodore, cello
