Light (2017)
Instrumentation: SSSSAA or SSA
Duration: 3’
This piece is dedicated to Polly Irene O’Neal, who is now soaring as freely and luminously as a lustrous ray of light. Light can be soft and pure, yet piercing and harsh. Its absence, darkness, can be empty, silent, and still. It has the ability to be free, yet confining, and void, yet all consuming. Based primarily on intervallic relationships of a second and a seventh, this piece explores the complexities of light and its absence. I find these particular intervals confining, yet free. Light paints the image of the sheen and shine of a speck of light in a dark place, longing to be free of the darkness that surrounds it. A reflection on the longing we sometimes feel to be free, yet consumed. A longing to be light. The text for this piece is taken from “Free” by Katherine Nolan.