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2/1/2017, Koerner Hall, Toronto
Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk conductor
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To lilt:
Somewhere between lift and tilt or lulte (late Middle English: lulten, to raise a voice, i.e. to sound the alarm). More recent senses of the word are less alarming, more gentle, drooping, singsong. The inflectional rise and cadential fall of the voice, either singing or speaking. This definition maps onto the body, eventually: lilting movements of step, sway, swing, swagger.
Here, I have written music which in many ways breaks with my usual practice of smearing time, musically: a fuzzy, defocused, hazy world without edges or corners. In wanting to write music a dancer could press against, react to physically, plot upon it their own heartbeat and breath and curvatures, I opted for a more metrical, at times angular approach to rhythm. Exceptionally, the penultimate section halts to a tempo so impossibly slow musical time seems to have evaporated entirely, before clicking back into the gently metrical world of lilting 5-counts with which we began.
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