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Duo
2021
Harp
Keyboards
Piano
Strings, plucked
- Program Notes
- Bioluminescence is a descriptive work that uses linear counterpoint, polyrhythms, and polymetry throughout the piece. Despite its name, the piece describes the reflections of moonlight on the ocean waves. The work is dedicated to the composer's daughter and the chosen title represents her gifts: life, energy, light. Some material used was selected and laid out by operations of chance (randomness): the instruments, the form, the series of eleven pitches for the piano, the basic sequence of seven pitches for the harp, and the “gestures” of each section. Rhythmic cells, time signature, dynamics, and tempos were defined by the composer, among other details. The composer's artistic work is using the raw material and giving meaning to it; the creation of a coherent discourse. The composer defines “gestures” as the path of the pitches throughout of the work: from ends to center, from center to ends, from treble to bass, and from bass to treble.