further reading
Urgent Attention: A profile of composer Timothy McCormack - VAN Magazine, Jeffrey Arlo Brown [March, 2024]
performance history
4/12/2024 - Ty Bouque. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY
1/23/2024 - Ty Bouque. 2640 Space. Baltimore, MD
9/30/2023 - Ty Bouque (Loadbang). Boston Conservatory. Cambridge, MA
9/15/2023 - Ty Bouque. MAM test kitchen. MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik. km28. Berlin, Germany
4/23/2023 - Barret Allen, voice. Boston Conservatory. Boston, MA.
program note
The nest as a protective, hermetic, enveloping space. To build a nest for oneself is to care for oneself, center oneself, to curate a space for oneself. This piece is not the nest you are born into; it is the nest you construct for yourself alone, always building and rebuilding, fine-tuning, caring over. The nest you build for yourself. Withinness.
Centered in noise; a space saturated with sound and noise so as to pad it, soften it, envelop it from within. Sound as nest. Noise as nest. Accumulating; gathering; radiating out, through, on, over time. Sonic terraforming.