for string orchestra

Duration: 7 minutes

Shadow Play – orch – score.mus

Shadow Play explores the ways identical sounds can be experienced differently across time. While writing the piece I found that its subtly varying textures suggested the play of light that occurs throughout a day, and in particular the different shapes, lengths, and densities that a single object’s shadow can manifest as time passes.

This work was funded in part by the Composer Assistance Program of the American Music Center.

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Score excerpt:

Shadow-Play-score-sample