string quartet
7 minutes
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Never publicly performed.
The recording above is from the class concert of Music 161r at Harvard, Spring 2015. |
The title comes from the poetry of A.R. Ammons. He is frequently turning in his poems, opening himself up to the natural world and its vastness, to the uncontrollable forces like the wind that literally make us move. But there is also a willing submission to these larger-than-human forces, and the piece itself also turns away from the violent randomness of the opening sections to the rhythmically unison and flowing end. Here, the music retains only its most essential elements, capturing the tiny pieces of the vast universe so it can begin building the beginnings of a unified self out of them.
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