Strained (2023)

for two saxophones and electronics
6′
score

chamber electroacoustic live processing

Program Note

Strained is an honest but reluctant negotiation with my [R|r]omantic tendencies. Dramatic gestures are often hollowed out and detuned, sometimes sabotaged by the impersonal vocoder. Quotidian details surround and undermine these figures, as if to foreshadow their failure. Ideas emerge but would not evolve without a digression.