Alarm Will Sound | "Dust" by Nicole Murphy performed by Alarm Will Sound @alarmwillsound | Uploaded August 2020 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
Nicole Murphy, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound
Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 27, 2019
Notes by the composer:
"Dust" takes inspiration from an excerpt of "The Captain of the Men of Death" by Australian writer Richard James Allen ("The Story of You and I," 2019). This excerpt describes the erratic undoing of carefully-constructed lives that can occur when experiencing a serious illness. Allen describes the way in which "everything that was so deftly woven... becomes messy, unjoined, disconnected, gaps appear everywhere with no rhymes or reasons." The form of "Dust" reflects the structure and pacing of the poem, as the deconstruction of the initial ideas lead to the "hideous cacophony and dreadful silence of before and after we humans pushed our cloven hooves into this dust."
Alarm Will Sound:
Alan Pierson, conductor and Artistic Director
Erin Lesser, flute
Christa Robinson, oboe
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
Elisabeth Stimpert, clarinet
Michael Harley, bassoon
Laura Weiner, horn
Tim Leopold, trumpet
Michael Clayville, trombone
Matt Smallcomb, percussion
Chris Thompson, percussion
John Orfe, piano
Alan Pierson, piano
Courtney Orlando, violin
Stefan Freund, cello
Miles Brown, bass
Daniel Neumann, audio engineering
Executive Director, Gavin Chuck
General Manager, Annie Toth
Production Manager, Jason Varvaro
Assistant Director of Artistic Planning, Peter Ferry
Librarian, Chihiro Shibayama
Special thanks to Patti Kilroy (violin), Beth Myers (viola), Yuri Yamashita (percussion), and Nathan Koci (horn).
Nicole Murphy, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound
Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 27, 2019
Notes by the composer:
"Dust" takes inspiration from an excerpt of "The Captain of the Men of Death" by Australian writer Richard James Allen ("The Story of You and I," 2019). This excerpt describes the erratic undoing of carefully-constructed lives that can occur when experiencing a serious illness. Allen describes the way in which "everything that was so deftly woven... becomes messy, unjoined, disconnected, gaps appear everywhere with no rhymes or reasons." The form of "Dust" reflects the structure and pacing of the poem, as the deconstruction of the initial ideas lead to the "hideous cacophony and dreadful silence of before and after we humans pushed our cloven hooves into this dust."
Alarm Will Sound:
Alan Pierson, conductor and Artistic Director
Erin Lesser, flute
Christa Robinson, oboe
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
Elisabeth Stimpert, clarinet
Michael Harley, bassoon
Laura Weiner, horn
Tim Leopold, trumpet
Michael Clayville, trombone
Matt Smallcomb, percussion
Chris Thompson, percussion
John Orfe, piano
Alan Pierson, piano
Courtney Orlando, violin
Stefan Freund, cello
Miles Brown, bass
Daniel Neumann, audio engineering
Executive Director, Gavin Chuck
General Manager, Annie Toth
Production Manager, Jason Varvaro
Assistant Director of Artistic Planning, Peter Ferry
Librarian, Chihiro Shibayama
Special thanks to Patti Kilroy (violin), Beth Myers (viola), Yuri Yamashita (percussion), and Nathan Koci (horn).
