Elemental

solo cello

7'

 

2006

Commissioned by Chris Wild

Premiered by Chris Wild, Nov 2006, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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Elemental is a musical translation of a painting by cellist Chris Wild, titled “Woman with a Broken Plate.” It was composed by subjectively creating musical analogies for individual elements of the visual image and placing those elements into a musical form that reflected, to me, the overall composition of the painting.