all mass is interaction

Setting:

FLUTE, CLARINET AND STRING QUARTET

Premiered at Tanglewood Music Center in August 2023, performed by the TMC Fromm Players

Story:

“You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa...All mass is interaction.” -Richard Feynman

This piece is a collage-like ecosystem of interacting sounds that are constantly re- contextualized throughout. The same material builds on different relationships between the players, which become stronger and more dependent as the piece progresses. The duality of memory and present tense is strewn throughout the piece in the form of warm and sharp textures, basking in a moment and snapping out of it. There is an open-ended question in the sound regarding who is in the present tense and who is still in the memory, and how these two realms of time become blurry.