Alone Together

For String Quartet, and Live Electronics

2019

Program Notes

Alone Together was written on behalf of Landmarks for The University of Texas at Austin, and premiered by Invoke in the Robert B. Rowling Hall in celebration of José Parlá’s Amistad América. The 25x162 foot mixed media mural depicts the landscapes –both culturally and natural– of Texas and the Americas. My work focuses on overcoming cultural and digital isolation. By having the quartet literary turn their backs on each other it removes the ability for the players to visually communicate with each other. Such communication is essential for normal performance, and removing it limits the communication to auditory cues.

Note: The work was tentatively titled FOV One- Fourteen