Instrumentation

soprano sax
alto sax
bassoon
trumpet
violin
double bass

Duration

10:00

Year

2013

Program Notes

When hiking in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, I find my mind sometimes slips into repetitive thought processes that mirror the monotonous rhythm of keeping a good pace up a steep incline. As is often the case, these processes are musical earworms, endlessly looping and mutating. The most fascinating and enduring of these is a sort of unspecific, self-generating imitative music in the style of J.S. Bach. This piece embodies that involuntary musical generation.

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