ECHO CHAMBER (2019)
For Wind Ensemble (Grade 5) with Electric Guitar
Duration ca. 12:00
PROGRAM NOTES
An “echo chamber” can be (literally) a very reverberant space, or (metaphorically) an online community of like-minded individuals. The former is acoustically dangerous, in a way; a musical gesture, once stated, might lose its definition as it’s bounced around the reflective environment. But the latter meaning, the metaphorical one, is much more dangerous; an otherwise reasonable person, in this kind of echo chamber, might misplace their own identity, and begin to lose track of what is real and what is not.
Echo Chamber is a work that plays with these dual interpretations. Ideas resound back and forth across the ensemble, evoking a literal echo, while musical motives evolve, bit by bit, into unrecognizable versions of themselves.
Commissioned by the University of Central Florida. Premiered by the UCF Wind Ensemble at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Orlando, FL (April 2022).
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