...drifting days...
composed in 2005 - for flute, clarinet, harp, violin, cello
In 2005, a lot happened for me. I got my bachelor’s degree, I moved to Bloomington, Indiana, and I started graduate school. This marked a change in the sort of music I wrote as well - I was trying to move away from purposefully complex esoterica and into something a bit more personal.
...drifting days... was the first music I wrote when I arrived in Bloomington. I tried to work with very simple core materials, but to treat them with sophistication. In addition, I tried to capture some of the “wide-open-spaces” feeling of the midwest. That means there are a lot of rests in the first half. While it’s not perfect, it marks a personally significant transition for me, an still retains a sense of that particular time.
...drifting days... was performed at the 2006 Midwest Composers Symposium.
