Strata (Adler)
General Info
Year of Published: 2011
Duration: 00:14:00
Instrumentation
Program Notes
Strata is an homage to the artistic imagination of geological time and the inevitable accumulation of entropy and decay, inspired in part by the works of artist Robert Smithson. His materials were of the earth but his subject was the immensity of geologic time. His works are a hallucinatory meditation on imagining the unimaginable. Here I have attempted musical composition as a geologic ‘sedimentation of the mind’. Structures arrayed in crystalline perfection comprise an inclined basement overlaid by layers of derived materials. Musical crystals erode, conglomerate and metamorphose under the pressure of surrounding materials and the relentless entropic forward progression of time.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Sensations of Metals - Violin & Percussion
The Toy Robot's Mechanical Heart - Toy Piano & Percussion
Once, in a grove of tamarisk - Mallet Percussion Trio
Microlude in Three Primes - Percussion Quartet
Nongak - Mallet Percussion Duo
Pines Long Slept in Sunshine - Percussion Quintet
Signals Intelligence - Percussion Sextet
Strata (Adler) - Glockenspiel
Air - Glockenspiel
Cypher - Vibraphone
Motetus - Glockenspiel
Plenum Vortices - Percussion