nestbuilder [2022-23]

solo voice with glass objects & assistants [~13’]

written for Barret Allen

 

further reading

Urgent Attention: A profile of composer Timothy McCormack - VAN Magazine, Jeffrey Arlo Brown [March, 2024]

performance history

9/22/2024 - Sean X. Quinn. Norla Dome. Mission to Seafarers. Melbourne, Australia

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.