a.j. mccaffrey, composer
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Air, Ear, Ire, Hour, Aura [2018]
For violin, cello, and piano
Duration: ca. 10'
Listen to an excerpt of the premiere:
Commissioned by the Light Matter Trio (Clara Kim, violin; Joann Whang, cello; Karl Larson, piano)
First performance: April 25, 2018

For this piece I felt compelled to explore space between sound and pitches, and to use microtones and extended string techniques to imply music that was coming in and out of focus.  I imagined music that was perhaps moving towards and away from the listener, and "flanging" from a hazy, indeterminate state to a clearly defined one.  The title of this piece - Air, Ear, Ire, Hour, Aura - was something that I made up as a "sonic mnemonic" during the composition process, and it proved helpful as a reminder to me of how I wanted the sounds to blossom into clarity before fading back into the ether.
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      • Pareidolia
      • Air, Ear, Ire, Hour, Aura
      • Ventilator
      • Murmurations
      • Doppelgänger
      • Here Come the Waterworks
      • This Is What Really Happened
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      • Stop is the new Go
      • Better Living through Repetition
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      • worst of all is to begin
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