panic around death [2015]
further reading
Urgent Attention: A profile of composer Timothy McCormack - VAN Magazine, Jeffrey Arlo Brown [March, 2024]
performance history
12/12/2021 - Ty Bouque. Constellation. Chicago, IL.
10/20/2021 - TyBouque. NUMU: Neue & Unentdeckte Musik. Claquekeller. Baden, Switzerland.
10/13/2021 - Ty Bouque. KM28. Berlin, Germany.
7/22,26/2019 - Richard Haynes. 180° Festival. Fabrica 126. Sofia, Bulgaria.
9/8/2017 - Jeffrey Gavett. Arts @ 29 Garden. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.
5/12/2017 - Richard Haynes. Arts @ 29 Garden. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.
4/22/2017 - Richard Haynes. ACT Performance Festival. Kaskadenhalle ZHdK. Zurich, Switzerland.
2/11/2017 - Richard Haynes. Opening: Internationales Festival fur Aktuelle Klangkunst. Trier, Germany
2/10/2017 - Richard Haynes. PROGR Zentrum fur Kulturproduktion. Bern, Switzerland.
8/21/2016 - Isaac Stevenson. Constellation. Chicago
5/12/2016 - Viola Yip. Spectrum. New York, NY
5/9/2016 - Weston Olencki. CCRMA. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA.
2/26/2016 - Isaac Stevenson. DePaul University School of Music. Chicago
10/19/2015 - Jeffrey Gavett. Huddersfield University. Huddersfield, UK
10/13/2015 - Jeffrey Gavett. The DiMenna Center. New York, NY
9/11/2015 - Jeffrey Gavett. Resonant Bodies Festival. New York, NY
program note
panic around death acts as a meditation on illness, death, and the body, specifically through the lens of incurable disease. One’s body becomes an unconsenting host for such diseases, and the individual acquires both a panic and a peace around the idea of death. Existing somewhere between concert music, installative art, and non-narrative theater, panic around death does not pose any questions or provide any answers. Rather, it aims to construct a space that is informed by and reverent of illness while offering itself as an area of comfort and protection.