traces that time leaves on built form [2012]

piano & percussion [10’]

written for Ensemble Nikel

performance history

2/2/2018 - HYPER DUO. Café littéraire. Bienne, Switzerland.

5/11/2017 - ICE & New Music DetroitNew Music Gathering. BGSU. Bowling Green, Ohio.

4/30/2017 - Bryn Lutek & Hye Won Cecilia Lee. Temerty Theatre. Royal Conservatory of Music. Toronto, Canada.

4/26/2017 - ensemble recherche. Ensemblehaus. Freiburg, Germany

3/18/2017 - Yarn|Wire. Paine Hall. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA

9/11/2015 - Ensemble ET | ET & klavierduo huber/thometMusikfestival Bern. Bern, Switzerland

5/2/2014 - Christian Smith & Chris Goddard. McGill University. Montreal, Canada

5/18/2013 - l'Arsenale. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA

6/27/2012 - Ensemble Nikel. Tzlil Meudcan Festival. Tel Aviv, Israel

3/23/2026 - Duo Refracta. Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

4/15/2022 - contraBAND. Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Boston, MA.

7/1/2019 - Ian Antonio & Andrew Anderson. Yarn/Wire Institute Festival. Staller Center Recital Hall. Stony Brook University. NY.

12/15/2018 - HYPER DUOIGNM Bern. Bern, Switzerland.

12/13/2018 - HYPER DUOKulturnhalle. Leipzig, Germany.

12/11/2018 - HYPER DUOUnerhörte Musik. Berlin, Germany.

12/8/2018 - HYPER DUODepot.K. Freiburg, Germany.

4/31/2018 - HYPER DUO. ppIANISSIMO festival. Sofia, Bulgaria.

3/5/2018 - HYPER DUOSociété de musique contemporaine. Salle Utopia 1, Conservatoire de Lausanne. Lausanne, Switzerland.

2/3/2018 - HYPER DUO. Concerts de Musique Contemporaine. Centre de Culture ABC. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.


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program note

traces that time leaves on built form borrows its title from Bernard Tschumi's seminal essay Architecture and Transgression. Tschumi identifies the relationship between a structure and its decay as one that passes through states, which allows the structure to transgress the limits within which it was initially conceived: "The most architectural thing about this building is the state of decay in which it is." The instruments in this piece create identities around the idea of decay: the constant sound of the cymbals lightly brushed and the piano's pedal repeatedly depressed creates a renewal at every moment of a sound that immediately dies after its attack. Obstinate remembering of a perpetual state of forgetting.