These three works, time-fixt, as viewed from above and right now, are bound together by a concern for time, and most sepcifically the human time of memory. Although perhaps being complimentary, were conceived as independent works rather than a forming a related cycle. As with many of my text-driven works, there are connections between the structure and concept of the text and those of the the music: repeated words and phrases, meaning shifting through repetition and distortion over time.
In <as viewed from above> in particular, the musical structure aspires to the structure of memory. Interactive software is used to set up a process whereby each new line of test can be returned to , repeated and transformed over time. The sampled readings feature the fabulous voice of actor Martelle Hammer.
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