Stacked Dectet (2022)

Don Freund

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12 min.

Alto Saxophone

Baritone Saxophone

Clarinet

Electric Bass

Keyboards

Percussion

Piano

Strings, plucked

Unpitched Percussion

Winds

Program Notes: During some pandemic downtime I enjoyed playing around with the rhythms of triplets, quintuplets, and septuplets set against changing meters and beat durations and listening to the MIDI playback. But I thought “What live musicians could ever perform such a thing?” Then I remembered the fun I’ve had over the years putting together chamber ensemble pieces with my amazing faculty colleagues and brought together an all-star 10-piece ensemble, stacked with the kind of adventurous virtuosos whose spirit and commitment make the Jacobs School a composer’s heaven. There’s some inspiration from alt-metal rock bands like Meshuggah and the Cardiacs, and even some Duke Ellington in the lyric slow section.
Recording Notes: Live Performance Indiana University Auer Hall October 9, 2022