Stairwell Music (2014)

for Saxophone in a highly reverberant space

Stairwell Music is a brief meditation on the majesty of a space and the transformative power that an environment can have on those who enter it, however ordinary it may be. It is intended to be performed in a highly reverberant environment—perhaps publicly, perhaps as a private deliberation—or, if played in the concert hall, with a microphone and an electronic reverb effect of fixed parameters. As stated in the notes to the performer, the reverberation called for in performance is intended not as a superfluous effect, but as an integral component of the music and one on which the proper realization of the piece depends.

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