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Diaphanous Peripheries
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JLS-015-CSD
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Composer: Jamie Leigh Sampson
Duration: 14:00
Scoring: String Quartet
Materials: score and parts (9 x 12)
Program Note
Diaphanous Peripheries was written in 2018 and premiered during the soundSCAPE Festival at the Conservatorio Bruno Maderna in Cesena, Italy. The creation of each movement was informed by the barrier that exists between air and water, the objects in it, and beings that break it. While the entire piece happens in proximity to water, it focuses not on the body itself but on the scenes that surround it. The first movement tugs in an uneven pattern, as if it is a boat tethered and breaking away with the help of the waves. The second movement flits and flows around the towers of seaweed, each supporting a tiny ecosystem, that fill the greater depths of the open oceans. Sea Canes, a movement based on a poem of the same title by Derek Walcott, inspired the whole work with the imagery of birds flying in an out of sea cliffs, with the sound of the water indicating its proximity in the peripheries of the observers senses. The final movement, Diving Hunt, captures the aggressive manner in which birds break the delicate barrier between earth and sky to hunt for their dinner, just below the surface.
– Jamie Leigh Sampson
– Jamie Leigh Sampson
Reproduction Notice:
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.